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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: Rita Coulibaly <f.box@infinito.it>
Reply-To: ritacoulibaly@ymail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:09:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Greetings from hospital bed by Madam Rita Coulibaly,


Greetings from hospital bed by Madam Rita Coulibaly,

In my search for a reliable person and having gotten your contact I have decided to seek your help in carrying out my last wishes. My name is Madam Rita Coulibaly from Sierra Leone. I was a merchant and owned two businesses in Dubai. I was also married with two children.

My husband and two children died in a car accident six years ago, May their gentle soul rest in peace. Before this happened, my business and concern for making money was all I live for. I never really cared about other values in life. But since the loss of my family, I have found a new desire to assist helpless families. I have been helping orphans in orphanage/motherless homes.

I was moving with great pity and compassion that I decided to make this contribution on assisting people over there, my late husband deposited $US 3.5 Million in a bank in Ivory Coast but Presently, I'm in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for oesophagi cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only few months to live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to orphans and charity organization.

Because my relatives and friends have plundered so much of our wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.

Please, I beg you to help me collect the deposit and distributes  it accordingly. Use your judgment to distribute the money and keep 20% of it to yourself. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost you incure during the process of collecting and distributing the money.

And also attach to me in your return mail your personal details for familiarity.

1.Your Full Names
2.Your Age/ Sex
3.Your Marital Status
4.Your Occupation
5.Your Mobile Numbers/Fax

If you are willing to help, please reply me as soon as possible so i can send all the documents that are with me here about the money in the bank to you so that you can fasten this transaction so that the money will be transferred abroad before the country's politicial crisis turns into another thing, see this website for confirmation ( http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/1227/1224286314958.html )

May you remain blessed.

Regards,
Madam Rita Coulibaly.

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