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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: "GUei Joseph" <jojo_guei25@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jnkguei@bol.com.br
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:08:01 +0000
Subject: Urgent Request

Joseph N Kone Guei
12 Woodmead Avenue,
Sandton, Johannesburg-South Africa
Email: jnkguei@bol.com.br



Re: Seeking for Partnership and Investment Cooperation

I send this mail to you, demanding anxiously for urgent assistance. I made
up my mind to forward this offer to you. I am Joseph N Kone Guei, the son of
late General Robert Gué, ex-military leader of Cote D'Ivoire in Western
African. My father was shot dead on September 19 2002, in fighting involving
hundreds of mutinous soldiers in Yamoussoukro, capital of the Cote D’
Ivoire; Immediately, it occurred to me that the whole family life is in
danger I stumbling escape out of the country with my junior brother to the
Republic of south Africa where we’re now taking a refuge presently. You can
read more about my father by log on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/930254.stm

I am making this contact to you requesting for an urgent assistant for the
remittance of USD$8,500,000.00(Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) which was kept in a vault of Security Finance. My father
secretly deposited the fund with a Security & Finance Firm as a treasure
items for his family abroad six months earlier when he was in power.
However, the content of the boxes was not properly disclosed as money. My
father legally declared the contents as an irrevocable/unconditional
(Unknown) item belongs to his foreign partner overseas. However, no name was
nominated in the contract agreement documents as the name of the foreign
partner who supposes to be recognized as the true beneficiary of the deposit
in accordance with the deposit terms and conditions. We will write a letter
of introduction that will properly present you as that of the foreign
partner of our late father with reference to the deposit terms and
conditions. Before this, he revealed and directed us where to get the
documents of the said deposit, he told us that he enrolled our names as his
next of kin for all he has, being the only children’s. He advised us that we
should not stay in the country because his enemies might equally kill us to
reap all his wealth.

He instructed us that if he dies, that we should look for a foreign partner
who will help us to transfer the money into the person's account and the
person will help us to invest the money in his or her country. We agreed to
give you 10% of this money, if you can help us to bring out this box from
the security company and transfer this money into your account for onward
investment in your country. As soon as I receive your response I will send
all the documents to you relating to the deposit and the “WILL” my father
left for us that declare us his next of kin to all his estate. Also we will
let know the procedure of securing the consignment out from the security
company and transfer process. Please be rest assured that this transaction
is 100% risk free and it will be handling in the most legal means. I will be
expecting you’re soonest replying through my email at: jnkguei@bol.com.br

I expect your kind reply soon.

Yours Faithfully.

Joseph N.Kone Guei

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