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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: Prince Davis Coulibaly <malik.mrszenab@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: prince_davis21@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:48:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Prince Davis Coulibaly.






Hello, Thank you for taking out time to read this message despite all the spam around. I am Prince Davis Coulibaly from Cote d'Ivoire Ivory Coast the son of late Mr. Turey coulibaly a former special assistance to Mr. Alassanne  Ouattara the internally acclaimed winner of the just concluded Election in our country  who was recently killed by solders loyal to the illegal and the  Defiant president Laurent Gbagbo. I am presently in Accra-Ghana our Neighboring country with help of the united nation personnel officers working in our country. 
As his only son I inherited the sum of $15,000,000 packaged in a trunk box on arriving Ghana. I deposited the box with a Finance Security Company for safe-keeping to take care of my sister and my mother as a widow. So I need a foreign trusted person who will help me to invest this fund into any lucrative business. As a matter of fact, my father is dead hence my family can no longer have any other means of livelihood except through this fund. The Finance security Tags the contents as personal effect and valuable items. They do not know the actual contents of the box. It may interest you to know that this money came from the sales and proceeds of cocoa, gold and diamonds because my late husband was a big merchant in solid minerals before he met his untimely death. All the documents to prove the deposit of this trunk box with the Security Company are with me. Please I am writing to seek your assistance as an honest and transparent person to stand and
accept and transfer this money into your bank account as my late father’s foreign partner and my co-beneficiary of this fund. Once the money hits into your bank account,I and my family will prepare to travel with you to your country to invest the money and also give my family a new life in your country.
 For your assistance, I will give you 40% of the money, 10% will be set aside for all the local and international expenses we may incur in the course of transferring the money. Hope to hear from you soon. Prince Davis Coulibaly



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