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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: "Mrs. Rosemary Azuma" <nmxnkjs@att.net>
Reply-To: rosemaryazuma@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:01:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I need your Help

Mrs. Rosemary Azuma.
34 Bd de la Rpublique, 01 BP 1300 - Abidjan
France Credit Lyonnais subsidiary
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire


My Dear Please I need your Help,

I presume that we have not met neither have we communicated before. Firstly, my name is Mrs. Rosemary Azuma. I am the wife of late Mr. Bakayoko Hamed Azuma, My late husband Mr. Bakayoko Hamed Azuma, was a crude oil and diamond magnet based in Accra-Ghana and Abidjan-Ivory Coast, when he was alive he was poisoned by his business associates on one of their business trips in France. He died last Two months at the age of 53yrs after a brief illness in a private hospital here in Cote d'Ivoire. Could you believe that the tradition and custom of the town and state where my late husband came from demands that any woman Who does not have a male child for the husband, that whenever the husband dies, all the properties including cash will be shared among the late husband brothers and the woman will be sent out of the husband house just like that.

My dear, this is exactly what I am going through right now since last Two Months my husband died. My late husband brothers has taken all the properties belonging to my late husband including bank account and as well sent me out of my Husband house just because I do not have a male child for my late husband. This is a wicked tradition and believes.

As am talking to you now, I and my two daughters are going through hell at the moment. Right now, I am having in my position all the vital documents relating to the sum of $8,600.000.00 million dollars which my late husband deposited with a Private Bank Account here in Cote D' Ivoire, and he made all the vital Documents without putting any name as the next of kin before his death and that is the reason I need you to help me, so that I will put your name as my husband business partner to enable the bank release the money to you into your bank account.

You should understand that there is a lot of problem here in Cote d' Ivories, because of the Presidential Election, which the Opposition leader Alassane Ouattara has been declared the winner of Sunday's run-off election in Côte d'Ivoire, receiving 54.1 per cent of the votes. President Laurent Gbagbo is yet to accept defeat and many people have be slaughter and The winner of the election, Alassane Ouattara, has the backing of the UN, the African Union, Washington and EU but Gbagbo retains control over the army in a power struggle that has raised fears of a return to war in the world's top cocoa grower.
, because this problem. Please have mercy at the poor widow like me and help me out of this mess. I strongly believe that the only way I can secure this money for myself is to act fast now and you will lift this money over your country that is the main reason why I am contacting you for your assistance.

Please, as soon as this fund is lifted into your country, you can go ahead and have 20% for your time and patience in helping me. Please if you are willing to help reply me immediately.

I am waiting for your urgent response.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Rosemary Azuma

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