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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: Gibson Christopher <gibson1christopher@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:55:58 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: These letter is from Reverend Father Gibson Christopher.





I am Reverend Father Gibson Christopher.
 
 
Please it took me time and divine intervention to writing you this mail, as we haven't seeing neither meet each other before.
 
>From  Rev , Father Gibson Christopher  a Roman Catholic Church priest here in Abidjan, Ivory coast, West Africa. I'm very much interested in having a good relationship with you for our mutual benefits as I'm enexperience in financial managements and I'm not in a position to do orderwise due to the circonstances surrendering my priest mission.
 
Dearest in the LORD, there is an urgent need for my contact to you as I recently granted an opportunity by one of our beloved late sister before she gave up the ghost last few weeks.
 
The late sister  Alice Umako ret is well known as a devoted child of GOD in this community and beside that she is a major real estate agent also an inenvironmental management and had a licensed in oil merchant but unfortunately she struggled with breast cancer for close to 14 months now before she died. Though she is unmarried and has a 12year old daughter and I have been responsible for her care's since after her mother death. The late sister has been undergoing several operation which her final operation brought her death last few weeks.
 
Based on my last discussion with her before she died on the future of her daughter, she said should she not survive with the illness that I should help to look for a very trust worthy foreign trustee who will invest her funds on her daughter's name. Unfortunately she died and I'm definitely not in a position to run her financial management as she instructed that is why I'm contacting you to seek your assistance in taking control of her funds managements as I had resolved with her on an agreement that the funds should be release to any foriegn trustee like you and the person will be offering 25% percentage of the total sum for taking control and managing the funds while half of the funds will be giving to some hospital for the development of perfect treatment of cancer patients in some hospitals. Then the rest funds will remain with the person for taking care of her daughter  Miss Caroline Umako.
 
Meanwhile, the amount of the fund which inside the cash save  box which was deposited  by Madam Alice Umako in a security finance company here   is ($7,4,000,.00 United States Dollars) USD$7.4milion dolars)
 
I wish you could be of assistance to this course and some times I did receive unsolicited mails but I hope my mail doesn't come to you as an embarrassment mail but if it does please kindly ask me any question you like , because i am sure of every thing am telling and i m ready to explain more things to you as we continue,
 
Thanks and God  bless you and all your families.
 
Yours Faithfully in Christ
Reverend Father Gibson Christopher.
Of St. Paul's Catholic church
Plot 25 Bramakute Abidjan
Bp.01Abidjan 222 Bp 01
Ivory Coast West Africa
 


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