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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 04:56:07 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Please Help Me Out

Please Help Me Out

Dear One,

My name is godwin colins. I am 21yrs old . Please I would require your urgent assistance so that I can move out from here before they kill me as they are tracing my hide out.I agreed to give you 35% of this money ,if you can help me bring out this fund from the bank and transfer this money
into your account for onward investment in your country.


My father was a wealthy merchant.The trouble began early last year when my father's associates started suspecting that my father is not giving proper accounts of all the tons of cocoa being cultivated by local farmers in some villages. This mistrust deepens between Jul-Aug 2007 when they
discovered a very big some of money my father deposited in a bank here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire.

As a result of this discovery and the enviness of the money ,he was killed by his associates.Before this, he revealed to me the reasons of his being hatred.He directed me where to get the documents of the said deposit, he told me that he enrolled my name as his next of kin for the deposit, He
advised me that I should not stay in the country because his enemies might equally kill me to reap all his wealth hence my mother died five years ago .

He instructed me that if he dies, that I should look for a foreign partner who will help me to transfer the money into the person's account and the person will help me to invest the money in his or her country. My father finally died on 29th of May 2007 and since then I was out of school and
went into hiding because of my father's associates. All the relevant documents of the $8.5 (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars) that was deposited in a bank are intact with me now.Please i will be expecting your message so that i can give you more details on how we are going to proceed
on this transaction.

Thanks
Expecting to hear from you
godwin colins





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