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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: Sala Cumba <odum.micheal@info2link.biz>
Reply-To: s_cummba01@live.fr
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:23:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Miss Sala Cummba, Please reply back.


>From Miss Sala Cummba, Please reply back.
 
I am Miss Sala Cummba by name and the only daughter of Late Mr. & Mrs. Felix Cummba from Ivory Coast, I am 22 years old girl without parents, my mother died during surgery operation 5 years back, while my father died last year. My Late father was an exporter of cocoa seed to most Europe countries and he is a very wealthy Gold business man who based in ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST respectively before he past away.
 
My late father took me so special when I lost my late mother and he shower all his love on me and promised me that he will never have another woman as wife because of the love he has for my late mother. My late father died last year in a private hospital after a brief illness of food poisoned and before he died in the hospital he secretly called me and showed me some documents that contain a deposit of US$4,200,000.00, and the agreement made on this documents he showed me was that Sala Cummba will have to provide a foreign business partner to asist me transfer the total fund to business partner account oversea.
 
My late father also explained to me during his stay in the hospital before he died that it was because of his wealth he was poisoned by his business partner here in Ivory Coast and he told me to be very careful with my relatives and his business partner in Ivory Coast that they are the ones that poisoned him because of the contract Nestle food awarded him in Ghana. 
 
Please note that I contacted you to help me transfer this fund out of my country because this is the advise my late father left behind before he past away and I don't want to be here during the upcoming presidential election in my country which I know might cause crisis due to political problems here.
 
If you can be of a sincere assistance to me, I will provide every details to you for the purpose to this project.Send your reply tome at;(s_cummba01@live.fr) 
 
I await your immediate response.
 
Thanks & best regards to your family.
 
Miss Sala Cummba.

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