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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: Edwige Didier <edwdider22@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: edwdiddier@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:31:01 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Set me free from bondage please


27 Rue Des Gbagbo,
Youpougon Niagon
Abidjan.Coted'Ivoire

Dear friend,
How is your business and other things, including health of your family? I hope that everything is working for you as you wish it to be; if so glory be to God in the highest. Please i got your contact since two weeks ago in a guest book in the internet and i have been praying and meditating over it but i have today finally decided to contact you and know if you can be able to assist me on this issue i am about to explain to you.Please i will like if you can be honest and sincere when you are to reply me back; Please don't think of cheating me on this issue please because i believes that God almighty shall surely pay each and everyone according to our deeds.I want to promise you that you are actually going to benefit alot if you sincerely give me your helping hand.
I am Miss Edwige Didier, the only daughter of late Mr. Wilfred Didier. my father was a very sucessful cocoa merchant in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire before he were poisoned to death two years ago.
My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special and he were the one that nutured me to maturity single handedly. Before the death of my father in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he called me on his bedside and told me that he has the sum of Sixteen Million five hundred thousand United State dollars ( $16 .500,000 ) left in a bank and that he used my name as his only daughter and his next of kin to deposit it. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates and that he believed that the plan to eliminate him were actually hatched by his elder brother which had been jeleouse of his success in business.He also adviced me to becareful about my life because he knew that they might come after me some day since i am his only hare to inherit his wealth. He then adviced me to seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment
purposes such as real estate management or hotel management. But because of my age then, i did not know how to start to look for a foreign partner as my father adviced me so that is why i waited till this day.Please I am begging you to assist me to claim this money from the bank where my father deposited it and for you to provide an account in your country so that they can transfer it out of this country immediately before this wicked uncle of mine traces out the money and snatches it from me please.I also want you to promise me that you are going to invest this money for me in your country as my father adviced me and also help me to take care of the investment untill i finishes my studies or i marries then my husband can take over from you.And lastly, i want you to promise me that you are going to assist me to come and live in your country when they transfers the money into the account you are going to provide so that i can continue my education from there please.If God
Almighty have done it that I can live out of these enemies that poisoned my father and my wicked uncle that have being trying to get me killed because of my father's properties ever since his death.He has snatched every single property that my father had from me; and now he is after my life because he is afread that i might revolte against him and collect back my inheritance from them when i completes my education and gets married.My problem is that this uncle of mine is the only surviving relation of my father that i know , My father told me that my mother was from a country called Uganda in the East africa but i do not know anything about her family background since i do not know her in person; she died when i was a baby thereby depriving me the opportunity to have relations.Its is only our church pastor and and his family that i can claim to be my closest relations that i know for now, they have being suporting me phisicaly and moraly since the death of my father. If
you are willing to assist a poor girl like me, i am promising you that the almighty God will bless you through me. I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your assistance to me after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated bank account. Please my dear, just take me as your Daulgter, Sister or even your wife and assist me on this matter, the bank manager told me that the tranfer process would be concluded within seven days if we co-operates with the procedures of tranfer and next of kin claiming codes,He also said that it is 100% risk free since the money is my fathers' and i am his registered next of kin and it culminated from genuie business transactions made by my father and not from drug or any other illegal transaction.He also said that they have been doing this type of transfer for a long time now and that my case is not the first .Thanks for atleast paying attention to this my mail and also making out your preciouse time to
go through it, may the almight God grant you all your heart desire in life and solve all your problems for you as you are comteplating on how to help me out.
I am waiting your urgent reply. Thanks God bless you aboundantly.
Sincerely yours,
Edwige




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