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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: "oliver phillips" <olivephill09@fastwebmail.it>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:43:05 +0000
Subject: From Oliver Phillips.


From Oliver Phillips.
Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire

Dear Friend,

I am writting you this letter with due respect and heart full of tears i
need your help, and with assurance that you will help me to transfer this
fund, I am the only Son of late Mr and Mrs Wehtarbah Phillips. My father was
a very rich and wealthy Gold Trader in Monrovia the Capital of republic of
Liberia in West Africa, I want to let you know that my father was poisoned
by his business associates while my mother died when i was little as a
resault of health illness and my father took me so special because I am his
only son.

Before the death of my father on 2nd july 2007 in a hospital here in cote
d'ivoire, he told me that he has the sum of $18.000.000 (Eighteen million
u.s dollars ) which he deposited in a bank in Madrid Spain. he made this
money from the sales of Gold, He also told me that it was because of this
money he was poisoned by his business patners while on a business trip with
them and he instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me
transfer this money out of the current bank where it is to my desired bank
account and invest it for me, my purpose of contacting you is for you to
help transfer this money to your country before this people who kill my
father will kill me , this people who kill my father are after my life and
they want to kill me and collect this money from me, that is why I'm now
hiding my self here in republic of Cote Divoire so that they will not see
me.

Please i need your urgent help, Tell me how much percentage you will take in
the total money of the Eighteen Million USD Dolars to help me in transfering
this money to your bank account and help me also to invest the money in your
country, but you have to assure me that you will help me fully to transfer
the money to your account, l hope you will not betray the trust i have on
you because this money is my only hope in life, and moreover you will also
help me to come over to your country were i will settle down for my life and
continue my education, while you invest this money for me.

I can assure you that you will not have any regret in helping me, this money
is an inheritance from my late father, if you are ok with this proposal
please get back to me so that i can give you details of the bank in spain so
you can contact them and make arrngement on how the funds cn be trnsferred
into your own bnk account.
I Await your reply,

Greetings to you and your Family
Oliver.

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