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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: Fakal Koiko <miss_marinakabila@btopenworld.com>
Reply-To: fakalkoiko@live.fr
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:24:55 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From: Mr. Fakal Koiko


From: Mr. Fakal Koiko
Bank of Africa ( Cote d’Ivoire )
San-Pedro Branch


Attn: Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. Fakal Koiko. I am the manager of Bank of Africa (BOA)
San-Pedro Branch in Cote d’Ivoire . I got your information on a recent bank
conference with other West African countries held in Lome the capital city
of Togo in West Africa . I write you this proposal in good faith; I am 44 years
old married with two lovely kids.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I, as
the branch manager of the BOA San-Pedro it is my duty to send
in a financial report to my head office in the capital city at the end of
each business year. On the course of the last year 2009 business report, I
discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Five million, two
hundred United States dollars ($4,700,000.00) which my head office is not
aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this funds on what we
call escrow call account with no beneficiary. As an officer of this bank I
cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is
to assist me receive this money in your bank account and get 30% of the
total funds as commission.

There are practically no risks involved, it will be a bank to bank
transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the original
depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my
head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account. If you
accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much, email me through:
 if you think we can work together so that we
can go over the details.

Thank you in advance and May God bless you and your family.

Yours truly,
Mr. Fakal Kioko

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