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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: From Ousmane Konate <ouskona1978@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:22:24 +0000
Subject: Good Morning


Dear , Good Morning and best complements , I wish not to hurt you with my =
mail .Please read it very well and reply it back to me,

My name is Ousmane Konate, from mali country in west of Africa , i lost =
my father and since then am not confortable here in africa and am no longer =
have intrest to stay here in africa , just for security reasons of my life , =
my father death was not natural , they posion my father to death . so i have =
made up my mind to move out of africa ,
I want us to know each other well , I need relationship that will Last =
forever with you ,
i want you to stand as my relationship outside Africa and you help me in my =
serous need now .
I don,t want to be exposed or to invest this money in Africa .for security of =
my Life and this money of which my father warn me so serous about this money =
to be very very careful in future if any thing happen to him unknown .

Dear please i want to know if it's possible for you to come to this =
country and we know each other very well ,then we move to the Bank my =
late father deposited his money and we advise them to transferred it to =
your country and , then i move together with you to your country and we =
invest it to any business of your choice ,

This money was in united state dollars , Worth's ($9.7m ) dollars =
,Nine million seven hundred thousand dollars )

All the Original Documents of the deposit of this money is here with me =
now ,

If you want i can send to you all the documents and you see it first and =
also give you the contact of the Finance company where this money is =
, For you to start now to contact them on my behalf and with your =
best ideas to know there system of working and for you to ask about =
such deposit and confirm it by yourself . then you will tell them that you =
are my relationship outside Africa and need them to transfer the funds to =
your accounts in your country as soon as possible .
Again i will give you 25% of this money for helping me .

Please send me your phone number to call you and i will send you my pictures =
on my next mail.
I thank you for your kind to read my mail and i wait for your reply .

Faithfully
Ousmane

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