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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: Daziz Kone <dazizkone5@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <daziz001@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:15:42 +0000
Subject: From Mr. Daziz Kone...



From: Mr. Daziz KoneEmail: daziz01@yahoo.fr

REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPDearest,
Compliments of the day,

Permit me to inform you of our desire of going into business relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before but i am totally convinced that you will be capable in assisting me in this transaction.

Introducing myself , I am from Cote D'ivoire in west africa and my name is Daziz Koné 25 years of age the son of the late MR AND MRS Koné My father was a gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra, Ghana and Abidjan (Ivory Coast ) he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips. Before the death of my father in a private hospital here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast ). He secretly called me to his bedside and told me that he has a sum of USD$16,000,000,00M (Sixteen Million United States Dollars) deposited in a Bank here in Abidjan -Cote Ivoire,he told me that he used my name as the next of kin when he deposited the money.

He also explained to me that it was because of this his wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, he advised me to seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice either in europe ,America or Asia where there is no war or strife and transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as expansion of existing business and real estate management overseas, this according to him was because of the agreement he made with the bank on the day he deposited this money, in this agreement, he stated to them that the money will be transferred to his foreign partners account overseas for the implementation of a business project however he did not indicate anybody's name as the foreigner.

As a result of this the bank made it to be mandatory that the money will be transferred in accordance to this deposit agreement which they made with my father, this is the reason why i contacted you to assist me in the following ways as my father did not indicate anybody's name as the beneficiary.

1- To assist me in providing an account where this money can be transferred in your country.2)- To make arrangement for I and my younger sister Yéna, to come over to your country to continue my education and also invest this money into any good lucrative investment.

Moreover, I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ Input after the successful transfer of this fund into your account overseas. If you are willing and able to assist me , please send to me your telephone and fax numbers to enable me send to you the prove documents showing the deposit of this money at the bank after which i will send the contact of the bank to you for you to contact them and know how the money will be transferred to your bank account. please Reply me via the above email address.

God bless you as I look forward to hearing from you.May the peace of the lord almighty be with you.RegardsDaziz and Yena Koné.
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