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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: "carole cisse" <carole_cisse03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: carole_cisse002@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:31:48 +0000
Subject: FROM :CAROLE CISSE.

FROM :CAROLE CISSE.
CONTRY : COTE
D'IVOIRE
( WEST AFRICA )

DEAREST ONE,

Mysteries has gone in my life. In the western part of Africa is where I meet
a hell in my life. 29th September 2006 later in the night the murders come
without a pity without a mercy they kill my father in front of me.

My father was a wealthy cocoa merchant.The trouble began early last year
when my father's associates started suspecting that my father is not giving
proper accounts of all the tons of cocoa being cultivated by local farmers
in some villages. This mistrust deepens between Jul-Aug 2004 when they
discovered a very big some of money my father deposited with a security
company here in ABIDJAN-COTE D'IVOIRE . As a result of this discovery and
the enviness of the money ,he was killed by his associates.Before this, he
revealed to me the reasons of his being hatred.He directed me where to get
the documents of the said deposit, he told me that he enrolled my name as
his next of kin for the deposit, being the only child. He advised me that I
should not stay in the country because his enemies might equally kill me to
reap all his wealth hence my mother died five years ago of cancer. He
instructed me that if he dies, that I should look for a foreign partner who
will help me to transfer the money into the person's account and the person
will help me to invest the money in his or her country. My father finally
died on 29th of September and since then I was out of school and went into
hiding because of my father's associates. All the relevant documents of the
$10 million (ten dollars) that was deposited in a security company are
intact with me now.

My name is CAROLE CISSE am 21yrs old girl and a student. Please I would like
you to assist me as urgent as you can before they kill me.I agreed to give
you 10% of this money ,if you can help me bring out this box from the
security company and transfer this money into your account for onward
investment in your country. Please contact me immediately with the above
E-mail address and include your telephone number in your response to enable
me send you all necessary details as regards to the procedure of securing
the consignment out from the security company and transferring the fund to
your ends account. Please be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk
free. I will be expecting your soonest reply as soon as you get through with
this mail of progress.
Thanks and best regards

YOURS SINCERELY
CAROLE CISSE.

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