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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: guzifamilya@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:47:34 +0900 (JST)
Subject: PLEASE HELP THE ORPHAN CHILDREN

PLEASE HELP THE ORPHAN CHILDREN


Dear respectful One .

Permit us to inform you of our desire of going into business relationship and assistance from you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before. Introducing ourself,

I am Victor Albert 20years and my younger brother prince John Albert Jnr , 18years of age the only son of the late Mr and Mrs. Guzi Pisani Albert. Our father was a Gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra,Ghana and Abidjan(Ivory Coast),before his untimely death.After his business trip to
Tunisia,to nagociate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest in Tunisia, a week after he came back from Tunisia, he got an accident with our mother of which our mother died instantly but our father died five days after in a private hospital. On that faithful afternoon, I didnt know that
our father was going to leave us after we had earlier lost our mother, but before our father gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.
He our father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he called me to his bed side and told me that he deposited the sum of (US$ 9,000,000 ) Nine Million US Dollars in a bank here in Cote D' Ivoire.


That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold business he wanted to establish in Tunisia, according to my father he deposited the money in a fixed suspense account using our name as the next of kin, He instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for our life time
investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating the deposit documents and the bank where this money is here in Abidjan,Cote d`Ivoire.Due to war in our country Cote d'Ivoire, we now seeking for your assistance to help us transfer this money out from my country Cte dIvoire to your account
abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business in your country because this is our only hope in life.we are willing to offer you 20% of the total fund if only youcan help us out of our present predicament.
I honourably seek your assistance in the following ways

(1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be transfered into.
(2.) To make arrangements for us to come over to your country after the successful transfering of this money into your account, to come and further our education.
(3.) To help invest this money in a profitable business since I am only 20yrs of age and do not know much about business.
(4) To sponsor us transfer this money into your account,
(5). I want you to promise us that you are not going to betray us after the money gets into your account.The worst part of it is that my uncle is trying to kill me because i refused to hand him over the documents covering this money, He has sold all our father's landed properties including his
cars which rightful belong to us and now he want us to hand over the banking document of our father in my possesion which i refused.Now he said that he will have this money by all means even if it means killing us, To serve as the guardian of this fund since we are currently staying in a catholic
church where we are hiding through the help of the Rev Father,this is his E-mail david_janpaul@yahoo.fr Address incase you wish to contact him to confirm or clearification from him before we can start +22547805876 His phone number is His name is Rev Father David.Jan-Paul,he has been good to us
and also he is been a father to us since we have been here because since our uncle's are after our life because they want to collect all our late parent's propertie's because we are small boy's,now they have took all the building's and some of our late fathers businesses. You can always contact
us through th rev father's phone number when you call just tell him you want to speak with Victor or John Albert.
Beacuse we want to go out from this place before they will find out that we are hiding here in the church please anything you are doing about us please have us in mind as your own child,we have no other person expect God .
Thanks


Yours sincerely,
Victor And John Albert





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