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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: "grace baffoe" <g_baffoe_1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: g_b_affoe@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:24:50 +0000
Subject: Your urgent assistance needed:

From:Ms.Grace Baffoe,
Accra, Ghana.
Dear Sir,
Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? ,Permit me to inform you of my
desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help
me out in what i am about to tell you. I'm Ms.Grace Baffoe(18years old) from
Cote d'Ivoire, and the only child of Late Mr.& Mrs.Baffoe Thomas. My father
was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Cote d'Ivoire.

He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings
on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby. Before the death of my
father on Sept. 2005 in a private hospital in Cote d'Ivoire, he secretly
called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Seventeen
Million United States Dollars USD ( US$17.000.000 ) deposited in a suspense
account in one bank in Ghana. He told me that he used my name (Grace
Baffoe) as the next of Kin to deposit the money. He then strongly advised me
NOT to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer
nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from any
country of my choice (outside my country,Cote d'Ivoire ) that will assist me
in the wise investment of the money.I have since left the money in the bank
with the view of making use of it for investment purposes after my
educational carrier.

But as you may be already aware by now, my country (Cote d'Ivoire ) is
presently at war caused by political crises. Rebels have already taken over
the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards the
capture of the commercial center of the country(Cote d'Ivoire),
I am presently in Ghana,where the money was deposited my late father and
finally decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out of
the country Ghana that is why i need your urgent assistance to transfer it
out of the country and I will use it for investment purpose like real estate
management or hotel management Because of this i am honorably seeking your
assistance in the following ways:
(1) To be my guardian and then assist me financialy to transfer the money
into your bank account.

(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my
education and then settle there parmanently.

I am willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your
assistance. Please let me know if you feel the percentage i offered is not
ok by you.As soon as i recieve your full assurance and corporation,I will
then give you the bank contact information and then tell them to transfer
the money into your account as i want to come over to stay with you
parmanently. You shall then be giving me information on when the transfer
will be over.

I shall also send you my picture to you and shall also need yours too.
Thanks and God bless you.
Regards,
Ms.Grace Baffoe,

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