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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: "Favour Mutah" <webbb.offfice11@att.net>
Reply-To: <cxs@bewoopi.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:18:03 -0700
Subject: Favour Mutah

My dear,

it is my pleasure to write to you with much consideration, l am master Favour Mutua, the only son of late Mr Mutua my father owns a limited liability companies in Liberia my country. my father is also a chief farmer in Liberia, he is the highest producer of cocoa merchant and coffee, because of this properties my late father family have put eye brow on him, including some people in the country so my late father decided to have a foreign business partner who can assist him to invest in any lucrative business in his country abroad.

my late father have cocoa, coffee company and gold company here in Cote d’Ivoire and because of rapid eye brow on him, and he wanted to invest his money in foreign country because of me and my sister. it was like my father knew he was going to die, may his gentle soul rest in prefect peace. he disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of ($15,000,000,00) fifteen Million united states dollars in a IN cote d' ivoire. that the money was made from his gold company, farms, and the cocoa and coffee company.

My late father was kill during the political crisis in Cote d’ivoire with my mother but my mother died after one week later. my mother decided to hand over to me some documents of proves of the deposited money in the bank. and advised me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy foreign business partner for our life time investment, that is why i decided to contact you. Now i am in cote d'ivoire and have succeeded in locating the bank here in cote d'ivoire. and i have discussed with the Director of the bank and he said that i have to re-activate the account before the money will be transferred. and he also inform me that my late father have an agreement with them that the money must be transferred for investment in a foreign account before withdrawal. and also we have to come with a foreign account for the transfer.

now i am soliciting for your assistance to follow up this transfer so that after this money is been transfer into your account we shall be coming over to your country to continue our education while you help us take care of the investment until we graduate from school. please if you will help us, as we are orphans then kindly give us your full interest and provide the following details so that we shall go and submit your name to the bank as our late father's business partner.

1) Your real name and your full address.
2) Your phone and fax number.

Meanwhile by receiving these details from you i will go to the bank and submit it to the bank and introduce you to the bank as my late father's business partner. so that you will contact the bank an instruct them to transfer the money into your bank account, so that we can invest the money in any lucrative business in your country because this is the only hope we have in life and the only legacy left to us by our late parents, we promised to give you 15% of the total sum for your kind assistance during the course of this transfer.

I am waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction, thanks for your kind assistance. Reply us at Email: cxs@bewoopi.com
yours sincerely

Master Favour Mutah.

N/B: please try and negotiate for us some profitable blue chip investments opportunities which is risk free which we can invest with this money when it is transferred to your account and you will be our guardian. we are interested in estate management and hotel business just as our late father made mention before his death. Please advise us. and promise us to be our parents considering our situation and not to betray me and my younger sister. we will send our telephone number once we hear from you

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