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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: adel loveday <adel_loveday1ci@yahoo.it>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:07:31 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM Mrs ADEL


ADEL LOVEDAY
Abidjan Cote D` Ivoire
West Africa.
adel_loveday1ci @yahoo.it
Dearest one,

I am Mrs ADEL LOVEDAY the first wife of king George
LOVEDAY K.S.M the king of mende tribe in Sierra-Leone.

On the 19th May, 2000 my husband was murdered by some
rebel group on the accusation that he is a great
sponsor and in support to restore the democratically
elected President of Alhadji Tejan Kabba. Almost half
of the palace was burnt. Fortunately I was not in the
place when they raided the palace, my husband married
4 wives with 16 children, three of the wives with my
three children and others where murdered in cold blood
while my second son escape the incident with bullet
wounds on his right leg.

Right now I am left alone with only one son since the
sudden assassination of my husband the family has been

displaced and totally disorganized left with nothing.
Before his death,he came back from travel and
give me some documents to keep for him as usual he
told me that he deposited 18.5 million USD in a trunk
box with private security company in Abidjan Côte
d’Ivoire as a family treasure. So I decided to go and
search for the documents where I use to keep them I
discovered the documents covering the deposit he made
with the company and some other documents like his
will and other documents for his business. As my town
has been a serious war zone, I made arrangement with
two peace keeping force to help me and my son move
out of the country, however we moved out of
Sierra-Leone successfully, to Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire
where we are now. I have gone and conform the deposit
with the company with all the documents, all the
documents are with me here.

Now I wish to transfer these funds abroad and enter
into a business venture as the country (Côte d’Ivoire)

is no longer in peace since they conducted their
Presidential election on the 22nd October 2000 the
country has witness all sort of political unrest
ranging from ethnic clash which resulted killing of
innocent citizens and strangers people are living in
fears as the country is no longer that peaceful nation

as it was before due to this reason that I have
decided to contact you, to assist me to lift this my
consignment out of this country. Please I need your
assistance.

Immidiately you received this mail try to reply me
back on my private Email: adel_loveday1ci @yahoo.it
Thanks and God bless,
Best regards,

Mrs ADEL LOVEDAY.

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