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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: "jeanclaude@terra.es" <jeanclaude@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:53:10 +0100 (MET)
Subject: PLEASE CALL ME




Dear Friend,

My name IS JEAN CLUADE the first son of the late GEN IBRAHIM JEAN CLUADE who was a finance adviser to the late President GEN ROBERT GUIE of Cote Divoire(IVORY COAST)and a business man in our community .Whiles he was still alife, he was so in love with estate development and was to organize an estate development business in Cote d’viore but he could not fulfill his dream because of his untimely death.

After his burial, his lawyer called me and handed over to me an envelop, in the envelop was an instruction that he made a deposit sum of $8 million US dollars with a security company in Ghana west Africa,the money is in a trunk box that he wanted to use the money to organize the estate development business that incase something happen to him, I should contact a professional who knows about the investment so he can use the money to organize the business or invest the fund in any other business my foreign parner deem fit to invest the fund.

I contacted the security company to find out if the trunk box was still in their vault and I was told that it is still there and the instruction was that I the first son should come with a foreign partner to retrieve the consignment.

On the certificate of deposit, the box was deposited as family treasure so the security company does not know that the box contains money rather it contains family treasure. On this ground I am contacting you to help me come so we can retrieve the consignment from the security company and put the money into any good investment you deem fit as instructed by my late father.

I am waiting anxiously to get your reply of this mail so I can fax or mail to you the certificate of deposit that was given to my late father by the security company so we can proceed ahead.Please reoly through this box



Regards,

Mr.CLAUDE.





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