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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: ANNOINTED ANNOINTED <annointed@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: liz.annointed@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:53:37 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From: Miss Liz Bright,































From: Miss Liz Bright,
05 koumassi Abidjan, 
Ivory Coast.
 
Beloved One,
 
I am Miss Liz Bright from Ivory Coast. I am 22years old. I am the only daugter of late Mr.Johnson Bright. My late father was into Estate management and also a well known Government Contractor in our Country Ivory Coat, but he died on 25th October 2008, through food poison. The food poison was given to him by his brothers'when he attended our village meeting. My late mother Mrs Mercy Bright, died in 1986, when i was 4years old.
 

My late father told me befor he gave-up to a ghost in the hospital that he deposited the sum of US$22.4 Million Dollars( Twenty Two Million, Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ) in one of the big Bank here in this Country Ivory Coast, and he made me to understand that he wanted to used the fund  to build a very big Industry but unfortunately, the enemies did not allow him to actualized his dream.  Presently as i am talking to you now, this fund is still in the this bank till today.
 
My fathers' relatives killed my father and comfiscated my fathers' buildings including my late fathers' Cocoa plantation farm. As if that one is not enough for them, they are threatent to kill me also so that nobody will asked about those things. When i found out that they want to kill me, i ran-out of the family to save my life from the dangers around me.
 


I request for your urgent assistance to help me transfer this very fund to your account there in your Country so that i will relocate there immediately to invest the fund in  a very lucrative bussiness venture, to save my life from dangers arounds me here and to continue my education there in your Country for a better future.
 
I want to let you know that my late father told me that he used my name his only daughter as the next of kin when he deposited this fund in the bank. But because of the way those people that poison my late father are threaten to kill me, i have taken this decission to transfer this fund to your account there in your Country so that i will relocate there immediately to save my life. 
 
I will offer you 30% of the total fund as soon as you assist me to received  this fund US$22.4 Million Dollars ( Twenty Two Million, Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ) transfered to your account there in your Country.
 
I  will furnish you the details about the progress of this transfer as soon as i received your urgent reply. 
 
God bless you.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Liz Bright.
 
 

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