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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: "MISS FLOURANCE TRAORE." <m_m10bb@yahoo.pl>
Reply-To: flourancetraore@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:35:41 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Miss Flourance.


From: Miss Flourance Traore.
Abidjan Cote d' ivoire West Africa.

Greetings in the name of the Almighty, and may his grace continue to assist you and I, as you open your heart in helping me out of this unbearable situation of my family disaster. Please give me this Godly help for our Almighty will reward you in abundant. It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country, though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount of Million U.S dollars ($10,000,000.00) which my late Father kept with a Fiduciary Fund Holder here in Abidjan the Capital of Cote d’Ivoire before his death.

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons. I want you to help me claim and retrieve this fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes. I am Miss Flourance Traore, the Daugther of late Colonel Bakassa Traore who died on after he was badly tortured by the security agents of the present goverment of president Laurent Gbagbo of the Republic of Cote D'Ivoire for honouring the invitation to a dinner by the French Ambassador with his two colleagues, after the dinner they were arrested by the security agent of the present regime and was accussed of being traitors to their motherland knowing the political problems between Cote d'Ivoire and France.

They were tortured and detained for several hours after they were released immediately he was rushed to the hospital where his private doctor battled to save his life but he died 4 days later on sunday 3 july 2005 for verification you can see for your self this website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4649533.stm

My father knowing he won,t survive called all of us by his dying bed and instructed us to leave the country to Ghana where we are presently as our country Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is no longer safe for us, Our Mother died 3 months later as a result of the heart attack she suffered during the news of the death of my father and I have to escape from Ghana now to Cote d’Ivoire in respect of this money and no one knows my whereabout here as I am in hiding place now at a Church with the help of one Pastor.

If you can be of an assistance to me I will be pleased to offer to you 20% of the total fund for your assistance to me.

I am wait your soonest response.
Respectfully yours,
Miss Flourance Traore.


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