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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "DEBBIE DILLY" <debbiedilly30@yahoo.com.my>
Reply-To: debbie35ci@yahoo.com.my
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:57:23 +0200
Subject: DEAREST ONE


Hi My Dearest,



How are you doing today? I need you to read this mail attentively to understand what i send to you, i know
you will be wondering how i get your mail address and also ask after reading this letter why should i trust you
or even choose you but i want you to understand that i simply follow my heart and obey the voice of God
almighty because the very moment i came in contact with your contact information, i was convince within my
heart that you are the person i have been looking for. I also believe i can trust you with all my heart because i
also beleive you are God fearing. but my only fear now is that i hope and pray you beleive what i have to tell
you.



I am Debbie, i am 19, My mother was an African American while my father was from the french speaking
colony of Cote D' Ivoire, i was living with my mother not too far from Charleston building, 601 57th Street,
Charleston West Virginia USA. And i attended Charleston senior High School, 1201 Washington Street E,
Charleston, WV. I lost my mother sometimes ago and after her death i came to meet my father for the very
first time in Cote d' Ivoire, though he was also living in the state (OHIO) He told me he worked with Oha
Insurance Solution, INC. 155 East broad street Columbus, Ohio 43215 USA. before he relocated back to
Cote d' Ivoire to set up his own business.



Exactely two months and one week after i came to meet my father with the help of US consulates he died, he
was very sick when i came to meet him. But before his death? he told me that everything he worked and
laboured for in his life time is deposited in a security company as a family valuables and he gave me the
document and my father told me that the total money inside the trunk box 8.7 Million pounds. the money he
wanted to used to set up his own insurance company, but when he fell sick, he knew should anything happens
to him his relatives will kill themselvies over the money forgotten that he has a daughter who is in the state with
the mother, that was why he secured the money with my name in a security company.



The reason i am telling you is that i am just a girl of 19 and there is little or nothing i could do on my own and
again if my late father relatives find out that my late father left that kind of money in my care i don't know what
they might do to me, so i need you to help me contact the security company and claim the deposited Item for
me as my friend and Guardian, and take me along with you If you do this for me i will offer you 20% of the
total money for all the inconvinences i might have cause you.
Please i requested for your trust and understanding because it might sound unbeleivable but it is the truth.



I am presently living in my late father family house at Av houdaille, plateau 132 BP 4713 Abidjan 01 Cote d'
Ivoire.


my telephone number is +225 08230175

You can call me any time.

Please get back to me as soon as posible and endeavour to include your telephone number so that i can call
you.

Miss Debbie Dilly.

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