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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: Alima Guei <alimaguei058@hotmail.fr>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:41:26 +0200
Subject: Asking for your assistance in my situation my dear
















Dearest One,Complement of the day,
please do not forget to contact me through this my private e-mail address for the security reason.( alima2007@myway.com )My family!This mail might come to you as asurprise and the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind; but please consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility. I know there may be junk mails flying here and there on the internet but certainly, this is not one of them. Now i urge you to take this message seriously and with an open minded, in God Almighty for faith and trust. Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you.I am Miss Alima Rose Idris Guei the only dauther of late ex military/ex president of cote d'Ivoire Robert Guei. On the 19th sept 2002 my father/mother including every members of our family was murdered by the unknown rebels during the time they attack our house by shooting and looting, even this is one of the things that contributed to the present crisis in our country today.God so kind I was not in town when the incident occurred, the plans of the rebels is to kill every members of our family so that no one will rise up to revenge as time goes on. I am in our country without any one knowing although I am on hiding so that the unknown rebels will not get to me and kill me like they killed all the members of our family. Why I still stay back in our country is to transfer the $18.5m USD which my late father deposited in one of the security company here in Abidjan, he deposited it as family treasure for security reasons.I want to seek for your help to invest this fund in your country as my foreign partner so that you will help me invest this fund very wisely in your country and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel managements. I believe that this transaction would be concluded within fourteen (14)days you signify your interest to assist me. Before I even pick you to assist me I have prayed and slept over it asking God to provide for me a God minded person that will assist me in this transaction.I will give you more details of the transaction in my next mail.
For futher informations of my points,kindly make out a time and visit this websites below My dear1: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2268718.stm 2: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2267971.stm Anticipating to hear from you soon.you can contact me through my privacte email address ( alima2007@myway.com)Thanks and God bless.Best regards,Miss Alima Rose Guei.


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