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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: maxwell charles <ch02well@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <ch22maxwell1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:12:39 +0200
Subject: FROM CHARLES MAXWELL.



FROM CHARLES MAXWELL. RUE: 521 COCODY ABIDJANCOTE D' IVOIRE. Dear, It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot be able to see you face to face at first. Being the only son of my father, late Chief Anthony Maxwell from Sierra- Leone Africa (WA) I am 22 years of age. My father was limited liability Diamond and Gold merchant in Freetown Sierra-Leone before his untimely death. After his business trip to Abidjan to negotiate on a Good Investment business he wanted to invest in Abidjan. A week after he came back from Abidjan , he got an accident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon, I didn't know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. Hi my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclosed to me that he deposited sum of $12,000,000,00 Million Dollars) in a security company here in Abidjan That the money was meant for his Diamond and Gold company he wanted to establish in Abidjan though, according to my father he deposited the money in a trunk box but declared it as vital family belongings. He single handed me the key of the box and the deposit certificate and instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating the security company here in Abidjan also confirmed the items with most honest and confidentiality. Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me lift this money out from Abidjan to your safe account abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life. I am willing to offer you 10% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament. Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction. I thank you for your understanding while I will be waiting for your immediate response. Yours sincerely,Charles Maxwell.
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