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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: clemand hubert <clemandhubert002@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:48:57 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL


Dear Sir/ Madam,
I know that you will be surprised to read my mail. To introduce my self to you. My name is clemand hubert while my sisters name is susan . we are the children of late Mr wilson Hubert of the late memory. I am 25 years old while my sister is 23yrs old. we lost our mother a very long time after the birth of my sister, and our father has been taking care of us since then. But unfortunately we lost our father last year in a ghastly motor accident with his foreing partner Mr wilfred Anderson from England on their way from yammoussoukro the economic capital of ivory coast to Abidjan, which is about 335 km away from abidjan. both me and my sister were the only chilrend left behind by my late father and some of his family member. during his life time he was a government contractor on construction of roads and houses in this country. And he was the chairman of the rock construction company while Mr wilfred was his foreingn partner.It happens that when i heard of his death, I
immidiatelly went to his room to get some of his vital doccuments before the arrival of any of his family member, but fortunately for me, i got a document of an outstanding payement of 835MILLION CFA, about ( 4MILLION US DOLLAR) which is due for payment of the contract executed by my late father and his partner, I kept this cheque and went to explain everything to our pastor on the next thing to do, but his advice was that we should go to the bank and discuss with the director on the withdrawal of the fund, so that i can travel out of the country immediately with my sister to abroad for the continuatiuon of our study and to avoid the family member of my father. since the death of our father they have not been taking care of us, they just sit on everything that belongs to our father and they were treating to kill us if we decide to go at any lenght.
So, when we met the bank director on how the money will be paid to us, he told us that we can not withdraw the fund without the knowledge and signature of Mr willfred immidiate family. We just need your service to contact the director of the bank and tell him that you are the first cousin of late Mr Willfred Anderson the partner of Mr wilson Hubert of Rock construction company in ivory-coast,ABIDJAN. And tell him that the family of Mr Wilson have contacted you on the fund yet to be paid to Rock construction company in Abidjan which your late brother Mr wilfred was the partner of Mr wilson Hubert .You tell the bank director that you want him to give you the procedure on how the fund will be withdrawn from the bank. I promise you 20% of the total amount if the money is withdrawn from the bank. And i will want you to arrange for our coming immidiately. If you are intrested in helping us, i will give you the full contact of the bank in your next reply to me. Looking
forward to hear from you soon.
Best regard.
Clemand Hubert.


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