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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: "jose doukry" <josedoukry05@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: jose_doukry20@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:21:28 +0000
Subject: FROM: MR.JOSE DOUKRY


FROM: MR.JOSE DOUKRY
DIRECTOR IN CHAGER OF AUDITING SECTION
SGBCI BANK
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE.

Dear Friend,

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met
before. I am the the Director in charge of Auditing section Bank in the
Group SGBCI BANK abidjan,AS IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW, I got your
impressive information through an international business equiry HERE IN
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE., I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this
trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual
benefit of our bothfamilies.

I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($12.6 million)
Twelve Millon six Hundred Thousand US Dollars immediately to your account.
The money has been dormant (in-active) for 10 years in our Bank here without
any body coming for it.

I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased
customer (the owner of the account) who died a long with his family in air
crash since February 16,1998. I don't want the money to go into our Bank
treasury as an abandoned fund, so this is the reason why I contacted you, so
that my Bank will release the money to you as the nearest person to the
deceased cutomer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top
secret and delete it if you are not interested.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you full details on how the business
will be executed and also note that you will have 30% of the above mentioned
amount if you agree to help me execute this business.

I want you to know that I never master minded the death of the deceased
fellow. Their death was occured Naturally. Please View this
website:/www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/

Thanks and waiting for your urgent response,

Best Regards
Mr.Jose Doukry.

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