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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: charles anthony <charlesan100@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:25:50 +0100 (BST)
Subject: From Charles and Lilian


From Charles and Lilian
Abidjan,Cote d'ivoire
Tel:+22507762054
Greeting,
I know that this proposal may come to you as a surprise.
I got your contact address from the Internet while I was searching for a partner.
I am Charles Kuma the son of late Chief Mike Kuma and my sister Lilian.
Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan,
the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discuss on a business deal abroad.
We are contacting you to seek your good assistance to
transfer and invest the sum of US$9.5M belonging to my
late father which he deposited in a security Company.
When our mother died in 1998 our father took me and my junior sister special because we are motherless.
Before the death of our father He secretly called us on his beside and told us that he has a sum of $9,500.000
(Nine Million Five Hundred united states dollar) Which he deposited in a security Company on his name.
He also explained to us that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates,

We are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
1) To act as the foreign partner of our father by claiming this fund from the security Company for further transfer and investment to your designated bank account abroad.
2) To serve as the guardian of this since I am a young man of 23 years and my younger sister just 21years.
Moreover we are willing to offer you 3% of the sum as
compensation for effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your designated account in your country.
Anticipating to hear from you soon.you cancontact us with our private email ddresss (charlesan20005@yahoo.co.in)
Thanks and God Bless.
Best regards
Charles and Lilian


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