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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: mariam kabel <mariamkabel3@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mariamkabel2@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:44:05 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From Miss Mariam Kabel


From Miss Mariam Kabel
Abidjan Cote Divoi

Very expensive,


allow me to address myself to you by email because it is the only means of which I could have for the moment via the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of dimension ivory.
I come by this mail to inform you of my desire to enter a report/ratio of businesses with you.
I obtained some contacts among which your particularly retained me the attention because I am in fact in the search of a worthy person and in good faith who can assist me in a purely social and human spirit.

I name is Mariam Kabel, I am 23 years old and I am the only girl of my late father Emmenuel Kabel, who was a negotiating cocoa rich person based in Abidjan, the economic capital of the ivory coast before it is poisoned by his associates of businesses to one of their meeting to discuss on a business cocoa. Since the death of my mother on October 14, 2002, my father took me so special since being orphan. Thus before its death on August 22, 2006 in a private clinic private (pisam) here in Abidjan, it secretly called me on its bed of hospital to the private clinic and said to me that it has one sum of 8.500.000 USD (eight million five hundred miles American dollars) in a frozen account in a local bank here in Abidjan, and assure me that I am the direct heiress of this sum in bank and it moreover explained me that it was because of this richness that it was poisoned by its associates of businesses which believed capacity to profit from its richness after its death, and which I
should seek somebody abroad in a country of my choice which could help me to transfer my money and to invest it.
Dear Sir, I seek your assistance in the following ways honourably.

1) to help me to obtain a bank account where this money
would be transferred.
2) to help me to make safe these funds.
3) to make arrangements so that I can go in your country so that I continue my studies.

I am been willing to offer 15% to you pourcents of all the total sum like compensation and in more 5% pourcents for the expenditure which you will carry out, all that with the success of the transfert.c' està to say, when the funds are protected in an account that you will help me to obtain and that you would forward me.
I need really your assistance and I believe according to received information's which this business can be solved in seven (7) days if you to help me.
In the hope of a continuation favorable to my request, receive l'_expression of my feelings
respectful.
So long.
Thank you and that god blesses you.
Cordially,

Mariam Kabel



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