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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: "Bintou Toure" <bintoure8@gala.net>
Reply-To: bintoutoure01@hotmail.fr
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:48:19 +0000
Subject: Miss Bintou Toure


Miss Bintou Toure
Rue 14 Ave 7,Jean-Mac Kouassi,Cocody Abidjan,
Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) West African


Dear,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you. I have the believe you are a reputable and responsible and
trustworthy person I can do business with from the little information so far
I gathered about you during my search for a partner and by matter of trust I
must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.

I am Miss Bintou Toure the only daughter of my deceased parents Mr and Mrs
Pascal Toure. My father was a merchant of cocoa and gold operator in Abidjan
, the economic capital of Cote d'Ivoire , my father was poisoned to dearth
by his business associates during one of their business trips.

My mother died when I was 2 years old and since then my father took me so
dearly. Before my father's death in November 2005 in a private hospital in
Abidjan, he secretly called me at his bedside, and he told me that he has a
sum of twelve million five hundred thousand United States dollars USD ($
12,500.000) in a security company here in Abidjan, and that he used my name
as his only daughter and beneficiary of these funds in the security company.


He also explained that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by
his business associates. He also asked me to look for a foreign partner in a
country of my choice where I can transfer this money and investments the
money such as in real estate management or hotel management.

I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.

(1)To serve as the guardian of this fund and assist me to retrieve the
consignment from the security company.

(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my
education and to secure a residential permit for me in your country.

Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15 % of the total sum as compensation
for your effort /input after the successful transfer of this fund to your
nominated account overseas, before the investments starts.

Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe
that this transaction would be concluded within a stipulated period of time
you signify your interest to assist me.
Anticipating hearing from you immediately.
Thanks and God bless.
Best Regards.
Miss Bintou TOURE

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