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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: giskwa99 <giskwa99@seznam.cz>
Reply-To: gisele_kw@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:59:17 +0100 (CET)
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?From=20Mrs=20Gisele=20mariam=20kwafu?=

>From Mrs Gisele mariam kwafu
ADDR: 120 angre Abidjan
Ivory Coast Africa.

It's a pleasure meeting you today, how is everything with you, hope all is well with you. I am Mrs.Gisele kwafu. from Sierra Leone. I lost my father during the rebel attack, my father was a serving director of the Agro-exporting board until his untimely death.He was assassinated by the rebels during the political uprising, before his death he had deposited sum of $2,350,000 he deposited in a bank here in Ivory Coast,

my father made an agreement with the bank which is that the money should be transferred to a foreign partner account, so i am not able to withdraw any money from the account until it has been transferred to you.It is my desire to contact you on honesty and sincerity to assist me and my brother in transferring the sum our inherited from father late Mr. KWafu. I am motivated in contacting you and hope to gradually build trust, relationship and confidence in you as i get to know you better.Please i will want you to understand our situation better,

for now to say it in the short form it has been a very bitter tale, from the death of our father to the maltreatment i and brother have been receiving from our later father relatives and our stepmother who have been envious of my father because they were not well-to-do as our father was, for that reason they are hostile towards us. even here we are for now non of them know that we are here because our stepmother was trying to take the doucment of this money that our father give to me before his daed, so please we need your help,

watting to hear from you soon
>From Mrs Gisele mariam kwafu,


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