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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: Godwin Michael <godwinmichael1@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: godwinmichae@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:52:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: My Dearest one,


My Dearest one,

Hope this mail will find you in good health and lot of cheers. God's love is never failed. I believe that his love is not only talk able, but real reacting and happening at the right time. I am Godwin Michael (Peace ) the only son of late Mr and Mrs Barry Michael. My father was Cote d'
Ivory Contractor Egineer based in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discus on a Contract Business deal. When my mother died, my father took me so special because we are motherless. Before the death of my father on 20th February 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan .

He secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has a sum of $ 6.500.000 (six Million, five hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in one of the local bank here in Abidjan, that he used my name as his first son for the next of kin in deposit of the fund. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the Contract deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate Management).

Dearest, I am honourably seeking for your assistance in the following
ways.

1) To provide a Bank account where this money would be transferred to.
2) To serve as the guardian of this since I am a boy of 23 years. Moreover dear, I am willing to offer you some % of the sum as compensation for
effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your designate account overseas. Thank you very much for your kind attention my dream project is to have our real estate management home.

I look forwards to hearing from you soon.
Yours Sincerely..
Godwin Michael


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