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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: rosemary davidson <rosemd04@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:05:58 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Hello My dear,


Hello My dear,


May this mail will find you in Good condition.


Pls read this message and get back to me urgent Pls am serious about this. Pls I want you to read this message and get back to me urgently. Pls I am serious about this business and I want you to take it so serious as I do so that we can acheive our Goal


It Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I have the believe you that are a reputable, responsible and trustworthy person I can do relay with for a partner and by matter of trust I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere transaction.


My name is Miss Rose Davidson, I am 29 years old young lady and I am single, from Cote D'Ivoire in west African Region, I am a banker here in ABIDJAN COTE D’IVOIRE, I need a very good relationship with you and open minded so that we can work together as one family and have this golden furtune that comes my way that I want us to join our hands together and make the claim and transfer of the money into your bank account in your country without any problem.


Really, we do not know or have see each other before but, since the world is a global village where one can be reached any where of his destination by the means of communication with the help of the world technology of today. Meanwhile, it was also after I went through your profile today been the very first day I got your contact and decided to contact you because of what I read from you profile and what l want to do with you


My plans was that as soon as this transaction get through and you confirm this money into your bank account, I will resign from my work with the bank and come over to stay in your country and invest my own share of the money since my country is no longer a country where one can stay and do investment due to the political problems we have been having here ever since 4 to 5 years now without end.


Your statue is good enough, due to the country you come from and I have the belive that if we can understand our selves, we will acheive something good from this project.

My communicating with you today was very please to me and I don't want to wait due to the urgency this transaction needed mostly.


In my department i discovered an abandoned sum of $ 9.5m US dollars ( Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars ). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer here in my bank, who died along with his entire family members in a plane crash in the year 2002 in that almost took the whole life of the pasengeres on board. Since I got this information about his death, I have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and claim his money because I cannot apply for it as the next-of-kin, assocaite or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking rules and guidelines but unfortunately I learnt that all his supposed next-of-kin or relation died along side with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.


It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this transaction proposal to you after many years that I have kept it with me without letting nobody in the bank know about this business, so that the fund will be release to you as the real next-of-kin. Since nobody is coming for the claiming of this fund and I don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. Pls, this is an oppurtunity for you and me.


The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclamed after five years, that the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund.


The request of a foreigner as next-of-kin or assocaite in this transcation is needed occasioned by the fact that the customer is from your same area and I am a citizen of this town, I cannot stand as his next-of-kin or assocaite. Please my dear, If you are ready, willing and capable to handle this project with me


I would like that you reply me through this altrernative email address box for the confidentiality of this business and for the safety of this money : rosemarydavid333@yahoo.ca


Meanwhile, I will like that you call me immidiately as soon as you read this message so that we can discusse in details of the business ok. +22508024659

Remain the same to who cares with love.


Miss Rosemary Davidson


THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING


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