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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: luci bamouni <luciebamouni52@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <luciebamouni@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:38:26 -0400
Subject: From Miss: Lucie Akos Bamouni



From Miss: Lucie Akos BamouniAccra, Ghana. Good day and how are you today together with your family? I hope fine. Please look not unto race or religion, because this has been problem facing the world as a whole. please do Permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I'm Lucie Akos Bamouni (17years old) from Cote d'Ivoire, and the only child of Late Mr. & Mrs. Felix Bamouni. My father was a very wealthy cocoa and gold merchant in Cote d'Ivoire.
He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby. Before the death of my father on Sept. 2006 in a private hospital in Cote d'Ivoire, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of thirteen million seven hundred thousand United States Dollars USD ($13,700,000) deposited in a bank in Accra Ghana. He told me that he used my name (Lucie Akos Bamouni) as the next of Kin to deposit the money. He then strongly advised me NOT to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from any country of my choice (outside my country,Cote d'Ivoire ) that will assist me in the wise investment of the money.I have since left the money in the bank, with the view of making use of it for investment purposes after my educational carrier.
I am presently in Ghana,where the money is deposited by my late father and finally i decided to take quick actions and have this money retrieved out of the country Ghana. I am presently taking shelter in a church since my uncles have collected all my fathers properties saying that i am a female child that i do not have any rite in the family. That is why i need your urgent assistance to transfer this money out to your country and I will use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management Because of this i am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To be my guardian and then assist me financialy to see that this money is retrieve from the bank.(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and then settle there parmanently. I am willing to offer you, 15% of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Please let me know if you feel the percentage i offered is not ok by you.As soon as i recieve your full assurance and corporation, I will then give you the contact information of the bank, for you to find out the requirement we need to proceed so that the money can be released.
Please, i will like you to come down here so that i we will both go to the bank together.I will also like you to think and pray about this very well before replying back to me. Please, as soon as you make up your mind to help me, you can contact me on this email address
address:(luciebamouni@yahoo.co.jp)
Regards, Miss. Lucie Bamouni
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