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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: carole ci2 <carole_ci2a7@hotmail.fr>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:44:38 +0200
Subject: best regard


Mysteries has gone in my life. In the western part of Africa is where I meet a hell in my life. 29th September 2006 later in the night the murders come without a pity without a mercy they kill my father in front of me.
My father was a wealthy cocoa merchant.The trouble began early last year when my father's associates started suspecting that my father is not giving proper accounts of all the tons of cocoa being cultivated by local farmers in some villages. This mistrust deepens between Jul-Aug 2004 when they discovered a very big some of money my father deposited with a security company here in ABIDJAN-COTE D'IVOIRE .
As a result of this discovery and the enviness of the money ,he was killed by his associates.Before this, he revealed to me the reasons of his being hatred.He directed me where to get the documents of the said deposit, he told me that he enrolled my name as his next of kin for the deposit, being the only child. He advised me that I should not stay in the country because his enemies might equally kill me to reap all his wealth hence my mother died five years ago of cancer. He instructed me that if he dies, that I should look for a foreign partner who will help me to transfer the money into the person's account and the person will help me to invest the money in his or her country. My father finally died on 29th of September and since then I was out of school and went into hiding because of my father's associates. All the relevant documents of the $13 million that was deposited in a security company are intact with me now.
My name is CAROLE CISSE am 21yrs old girl and a student. Please I would like you to assist me as urgent as you can before they kill me.I agreed to give you 10% of this money ,if you can help me bring out this box from the security company and transfer this money into your account for onward investment in your country. Please contact me immediately with the above E-mail address and include your telephone number in your response to enable me send you all necessary details as regards to the procedure of securing the consignment out from the security company and transferring the fund to your ends account. Please be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free. I will be expecting your soonest reply as soon as you get through with this mail of progress.
Thanks and best regardsYOURS SINCERELY CAROLE CISSE.
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