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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: Aisha Mohammed <aisha.mohammedc@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: aisha.mohammed0@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:22:50 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: FROM AISHA MOHAMMED


FROM AISHA MOHAMMED
Abidjan , Ivory Coast
West Africa .

Dear please parmit me to introduce my self to you. I am AISHA MOHAMMED.the daugther of late MR and Mrs Hassan MOHAMMED. i contacted you for your friendship and your assistance over my stuation in this Ivory Coast west africa.

my father is an indiging of kuwait together with my mother. but they are living in Ivory Coast for 23 years ago and that is were i was born and brought up.

when my mother was preglant of who sorpose to be my brother or my sister she have miscarriage and did not survive. that is how i lost my lovely mother.

after 3 years my father married another wife from Ivory Coast west africa here. for over 6 year ago i have been distubing my father to take me home but his curent wife did not agree for us to visit our country for one day.

it was last year my father fell to sick and did not make it to live. but when he was poisoned to death he called me because of his business associates
because of his wealth on his sick bed as his first child and told me about the money($12.500.000) he deposited in a bank here in this country Ivory Coast.

that i am the next of king which he use and deposit the money.
that i shall look for some one whom i trust to help me transfer this money out of this country to his account for my life purpose abroad.

because his second wife was not good to me even when my father was alive. why because my mother have dead and my mother is not from Ivory Coast like her.
she is treating me any how she like because i have no body to stand for me.

even all the propartys my father have in this country i have no right for even one of them.
i cannot even go to school any more because she say that she has no money for my school fee's that it is not on her buject.

now she have started asking me if my father tell me the bank he deposited his money.
but i told her that i don't know any thing about that. and my father told me that i should remember that i am not an indiging of Ivory Coast.

that i should fine away and locate my country.but i can not make it if not from someone's help.
that is why i contact you and asking for your help over my stuation in this country.

Dear am soliciting your assistance to help me transfer this money out of this country for my life sake while i will come to meet you and continue my education. then you will be managing any investment that will be made with this money over there.

Dear am looking forward to hear from you so that we can discuss on what will be your compensation for your assistance.

Thanks
AISHA MOHAMMED



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