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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: "Deborah." <debosorro@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: deborah_bb23@latinmail.com
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:58:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I am Miss Deborah .


From Miss Deborah .
Bassam City Ivory Coast.

Bonjour.
Permit me to introduce you this project of transfering the sum of ($10.5 million ) which we hope and will be happy to invest in your country,,,you should benefited on 10% out of the total Money .

Miss Deborah is my name 23 years old i am an ivorien by nationality living in Bassam cote d'ivoire Africa with my junior brother,father was a Gold and Diamond dealer and he was very active in a politice and mother a teacher they were killed in our home during the political problem here which made all the foreign investors to leave the cites,.

However,due to the same political problem for long that non stoped ,therefore we fear to still remain in this country ,So we want to leave as also making the necessary arrangement on how to move this Money which our late father deposited,,as all the Documents is with us,,

Then we are calling on you if you can stand in better chance as a foreign partner and assist us,,move this Money to your desitination and allow me and my junior brother to meet you over and invest the money under your control,,Please kindly reply soon regarding to assist us ,Hope to base in your advise.

Please feel free to respond back to me with your full informations.
Best regards.
Miss Deborah .









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