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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: Anderson David <anderson_david00061@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: anderson_david1@centrum.cz
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:00:08 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Anderson and Rita David.


From Anderson and Rita David.
15 Annexe Dokoui 2 Plateaux
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire.

Good Day and God bless you as we introduce ourself to you with all faith, trust and hope that you will understand us to assist us and not to betray the trust we have repose in you at the end.

I am 20 Years old and my sister 18 Years old, our father died 2 years ago in a gold mine in MENDE, Republic of Sierra Leone . He was into legal gold minning which he succeded in saving $35 millions dollars during his Business on Gold, before he went on a trip to Republic of Cote D'Ivoire West Africa near by country to our country to save his money for security reasons because of the political problem in our country.

We need help from you to help us transfer this money to your country for an investment and we want you to be sincere with us as you will invite us to your country to live and establish with you as one family with out cheating us or doing anything bad to us on my arraival with my sister. We are willing to offer you 15% of the total money for your assistance after the transfer of the money to your account in your country and you will also assist us invest our share into a lucrative investment as we are novice in the business world.

Please mail me immediately so that we can know your stand before looking at else where . you're the first person i'm contacting for this assistance. Please permit me to ask you, can you honestly help us as your own person ? Can we completely trust you? Please,Treat this email confidential and get back to me as soon as possible.

Sincerely Yours,

Anderson and Rita David.

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