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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: david solomon <davidsolomon2006ci@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: davidsolomon2004cii@yahoo.ca
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 18:59:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: From Mr David Solomon !!!


MR DAVID SOLOMON
BUNGALO OF PEACE RUE
1000 HENRY AV. 1 LOT 88,
TEL: +225 07 00 42 66

ATTN: DEAREST ONE

Compliment of the season

REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into relationship with you. I know this email may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or writen
before. Our mother died long ago when she was about to deliver my most junior sister CHANTAL, she is 17 years old as of today, based that we lost our mother so early our father took us so special, we are only from my mother's side, I and the one girl.

Introducing myself, I am DAVID SOLOMON 22 years of age the only son of the late Chief and Mrs ROBERT SOLOMON, my father was a gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra, Ghana and Abidjan (Ivory Coast) he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips. Before the death of my father on the 29th February 2005 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bed and told me that he has a sum of USD$5.5M (five million five hundred thousand U.S) deposited in a security company here in Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire, that he used my name as his beloved son for the next of kin in depositing the fund.


He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner
in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as as expansion of his existing cocoa business and real estate management overseas. Meanwhile, my late father told me that the security company does not know the real content in th box, they believed it was an Art craft of family treasures and important documents of his estate as it was formerly deposited by my late father.

As of now presently, the consignment is still in Abidjan due to the problem of unstable government and also the unagreement long ahead between the newly head of state his excellency president LAURANT GBAGBO and his oposition ALHAJI DARAMAN WATARA over the resent rebels attack in the country.

So for that reason,I have been wanting to instruck the security company here to transfer the said box to there representative stourage branch office in EUROPE. I only want to hear from you first before taken an action to that aspect.

Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compersation for your effort and input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas after you might retrieved the said box on my behald as my next of kin.

I will be waiting to hearing from you as soon as this email gets to you in good health.

Best Regards

Yours sincerely

DAVID SOLOMON
for the family


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