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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)
Reply-To: anne_bates_nanda001@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:14:35 +0900 (JST)
Subject: LETS US JOIN HANDS TOGETHER AND DO THE WORK OF LORD


This is Anne from Trinidad and Tobago.I am writing from the hospital in Cote D'Ivoire,therefore this mail is very urgent as you cansee that I am going
home.

I was told by the doctor that I was poisoned and has got my
liver damaged and can only live for some months. I inherited some
money ($28.725 Million) from my late fatherand I cannot think of anybody trying to kill me apart from my step mother in order to inherit the money, she is an Ivorien cote'd'ivoire by nationality but because my
late mother was not from africa she was from Trinidad &Tobago and my
father is late.

I want you to contact my servant with this informations below:

Mr Augustin Maranatha.
Address: Rue De
LaPrincess L/G 152 Cocody
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
Tel: (+22502302933.)
Email(augustin_maranatha01@yahoo.co.jp)


He will give you the documents of the money and will direct you to a well known lawyer that I have appointed to him, the lawyer will assist you to change the documents of the money to your name to enable the bank transfer the money to you.

This is the favour I need when you have gotten the money :-
(1)Give 10% of the money to my servant, Mr Augustin as he has been there for me throughtout my illness and I have promised
to support him in life.I want you to take him along with you to your
country and esterblish him as my son because i was the one that brought him out from the orphanange home and i made a promise there before they signed him to me to see him grow and become somebody in life but now my illness couldn't allow me to finish my promise to him that is why am contacting
you too.

(2) Give 10% of the money to Charity organisations andChurches on my name so that my soul may rest in peace.

&nbs p; Note:
This should bea code between you and Mr Augustin in this
transactioin "Hospital" any mail from him, the barrister he will direct
you to, without this code"Hospital" is not from the barrister, Augustin,
the bank or myself as I don't know what will happen to me in the next
few hours.

(2)The lawyer's name is Mc Lambert. And Let Augustin send you his National ID as he has no passport to be sure of whom you are dealing with. Augustin is so little therefore guide him.

will send you my personal documents when I hear from you,And ifI don't hear from you , I will look for another person because i will be going for my third suggery opperation as the doctor has confimed and i don't know what will be the out come because of my present condition now and i want this
fund to be in your bank account before i will going for the opperation so that Augustin will out of Africa before my step mother will kill him because he knows that is my step mother that poisoned me and she won't want Augustin to expose her.

May God bless you and use you to accomplish my wish.

Prayfor me always.
Anne Nanda Bates.
Thank you HolyFather




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