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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: Kouadio Bello <kou.adio@yahoo.co.id>
Reply-To: bellokouadio@terra.com
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:16:09 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: Confidencial, Dr. Bello Kouadio


Confidencial, Dr. Bello Kouadio
Dear,

Good day!

Thank you first and foremost for having time to read my mail. I am Dr. Bello Kouadio, an accountant with Cofipa investment bank , Abidjan ,Cote d'Ivoire, I do solicit for your strictly confidence on a good business transaction involving a huge sum of money from a deceased foreign customer A German private business school owner (Kurt Kahle) who died on 25th July, 2000, Air France Concorde flight 4590 plane crash unfortunately, He died in the crash with his 37-year-old wife and son Michael, aged eight He deposited this funds amounting to (Ten Million five Hundred United States Dollars) for safe keeping in the Bank here in Abidjan ,Cote d'Ivoire. Previously our filed record shows that the fund was actually for a project he wanted to start in the near future (a multi million Dollar Private University ) before his untimely death.

Since his death, none of his relations or next-of-kin has come forward to claims this fund as the heir. So therefore I kindly seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased; because my bank will not release the money unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as Indicated in our operating guidelines.

Please I need your urgent co-operation because I do not want this money to go into the Bank Treasury. The Ivorian banking policy and guideline stipulates that any unclaimed money belonging to a deceased person for the period of 8 years will be transferred into the Banks Treasury as an unclaimed debt. Consequently, I hope that my decision for contacting you will be given your genuine approval. Though I know that a business of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and curious considering the facts that you do not know me in person but I assure you that it is 100% risk free.

Please kindly reply my email by indicating your interest or willingness on this deal and bear in mind that at the end of this business I will be compensate you with 40% of the total money. Please, provide me the following: as we have 5 days to run it through. You can still read more about Late Kurt Kahle´s death story on: Http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Send the following information to me immediately for further actions: your full name, contact address, occupation, age, phone number and nationality. All these will facilitate arrangements here to get the required documents that will present you as the next of kin/ beneficiary of our diseased customer. You can reply to me with my private Email address bellokouadio@terra.com
Have a wonderful day while I wait for your urgent response.

Best Regards,
Dr. Bello Kouadio
Accountant E.S.E


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