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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: manda george <mageorge1973@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: m.gman00225@yahoo.com.sg
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:11:34 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Dearest one,

Dearest one,
It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration.
My name is George Manda The only son of late Dr. Manda Elvis,from Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire (I am 19years of age. My father was a Cocoa and Gold dealer in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire before his untimely death.After his business trip to Tunisia,to negociate 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 my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died five days after in a private hospital. On that faithful afternoon, I didnt know that my father was going to leave me after I had earlier lost my mother, but
before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.

My father, (may his soul rest in perfect peace) called me to his bed side and told me that he deposited the sum of Euros 16.5m (Sixteen Million five Hundred Thousand Euros) in a bank here in Cote D' Ivoire.That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold company he wanted to establish in Tunisia,
according to my father he deposited the money in a fixed suspense account using my name as the next of kin, He instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating the deposit documents and the bank where this
money was deposited in Abidjan,Cote d`Ivoire. Due to war in my country Cote d'Ivoire, I am now seeking for your assistance to help me transfer this money out from my country Cote d'Ivoire into your account abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business in your country
because this is my only hope in life,and now since am the only person left in my family, my uncle has seized all my late father's properties of which he want me to provide every other documents related to my late father's bank deposit I refused. Now my life is in a very big danger, For this
reason I have to look for my safety and security in another city in abidjan pending my coming over to meet you immediately after the transfer.

I am willing to offer you 20% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament. I await your immediate response coupled with your direct telephone and fax numbers for easy communications

Thanks and God bless you
George Manda
Tel: +22509133828




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