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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: "ahmel mariet" <mariet_ahmel02@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: mariet_1976@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:37:58 +0200
Subject: Good Day,

Good Day,

How are you today?I am Mrs. Marriet Ahmel from Sierra Leone. I lost my
husband a couple of months ago. My husband was a serving director of the
Agro- exporting board until his death. He was assassinated by the rebels
during the last political uprising. Before his death he had a foreign
account here in Côte d?Ivoire where he made a deposit of US$10.5 Million
Dollars which he deposited for the purchase of cocoa processing machineand
development of another factory before his untimely death.

Being that this part of the world experiences political crises time without
number, there is no guarantee of lives and property.I cannot invest this
money here any long, despite it has been my late husband?s industrial
plans.I want you to do me a favour to receive this funds to a safe account
in your country or any safer place as the beneficiary . I have plans to
invest this money in continuation with the investment vision of my late
husband, but not in this place again rather in your country.

I have the vision of going into real estate and industrial production. This
is my reason for contacting you. Please if you are willing to assist me I
will like you to send me your
1. Your full name, contact postal address
2. Your phone and fax numbers.
3. Occupation.

Once i confirm this I will submit offical to the bank as my late husband
foriegn business partner so that they bank will transfer this money into
your account.please indicate your interest in replying soonest.

Yours,
Mrs. Mariet Ahmel

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