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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: Christelle Martins <ms.christelle13@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <ms.christelle@hotmail.fr>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:16:28 +0000
Subject: From Miss Christelle Martins



From Miss Christelle Martins

The Faith Ministry Int'l
44 Freetown Road
Abidjan West Abidjan
Ivory Coast


Greetings, I am Miss Miss Christelle Martins from Ivory Coast. I'm 20 years old, the only daughter of my Late parents Mr & Mrs Solomon Martins . I want to ask for your help.I lost my mother at the age of 10 and my father was poisoned to death during his visit to our home town for a family meeting 8 February 2006. Before the death of my late father he told me that he deposited the sum of 5.2 million states dollars in a Security Company here in Ivory Coast of which my name was used as the next of kin . But due to the political problem here and the reason behind my parents death I will not wish to stay here again for now.
Papa has 2 three story buildings in the city of Buoake and a 5 miles of cocoa plantation in our village from where he made his money both as as producer and a produce buyer but all has been taken over by my late uncle who told me that if i should ask of my late father's properties again he will use the african witch craft to render me useless and make sure that he will infest me with a disease which i will never recover in life again. I am now staying with the Pastor of our church who happens to know all about my late uncle and the family i come from .
According to our tradition when a man is about to give up in his sickness his immidiate brothers are called to be at his bed side and they ussually lock the door until when he gives up the ghost before they can come out to annouce his pass away. It was during this period that uncle Micheal broke his personal cupboard and saw the documents of the buildings and the cocoa plantation farm land certificate. Please i am asking for your kind assistance to help me transfer this fund to your country so that i can join you to continue my education which is very important to me and also you can help me in investing the fund in a good and moving business in your country and stay by my side to give me out for marriage to whom i will love and you will give your blessings so as to bring out kids to bear my late parents names
I am willing to offer you a good % .Contact me back if you are interested in assisting me,I need your full contact informations (Name,Address and telephone number) I will give you more details on how to bring fruitful of this transfer upon your immediate reply. For now i am in the house of the lord with prayers and melodies unto Him
Warmest Regards,Miss Christelle Martins
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