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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: "Mrs Christine Cote" <info@cote.org>
Reply-To: christinecote2010@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:37:37 +0400
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT.


Am not confortable discussing the content of my mail on the internet
owing to lots of unsolicited/Spam mails on the net these days, but I
have no other medium to pass my message across to you at the moment
since my health situation is fast deteriorating.

Anyway,the summary of my message is that I have made up my mind to
WILL my late Husband's fund to you so that you can use it for charity
duties and good work to humanity in your country. The fund is worth
over Four million, five hundred thousand United States dollars ($
4,500.000.00).

Therefore I want you to get back to me as soon as you
can so that I can give you further details before I go in for a cancer
operation in a few days time. I will appreciate if you can write me on
my personal and more secured email address which is
christinecote2010@gmail.com.

God bless you.
Mrs. Christine Cote.
christinecote2010@gmail.com

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