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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: "Charles P. Toure" <charlestoure81@aviso.ci>
Reply-To: <cl.toure@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:19:46 +0000
Subject: Hi

Please:

I Decided to Contact you for real plight something else and I do want
you to assume that my message is generated without personal consign to
you but do permit me to express certain personal issues as I do not know
if I might receive helps from you, of course, my subject might appear so
sudden but please consider this as a wish and accept the mailing with a
deep sense of humility.

I lost my Dad a year ago, I and my sister are alone, my father was a
formal district leader to our community more than twenty five years
before our births, I was the only son as our mother was no longer with
Our Dad, due to long separation Mum did never knew of my Father's
fortunes thoughtless of other aspects of Dad’s life, though I lost my
Mum on the 28th February 2011

Unfortunately, my father willed some amounts of money which was kept in
a vault for ours future usage i.e. I and sister’s, these money were
annually paid to my father's account from various communities, also,
there were companies that usually cooperate by making payment to
communities as ways of helping youths that lacked employments, among
these companies were (1) Shell Petroleum Development Company (2)
Chevron, Mobil and Agape.

Most of the saving which my father wills were from annual revenues for
compensation of youth and community developments under my father
leadership, so, some of these profits were direct saving by Dad, because
of some certain problems that exist recently, I’d like to relocate to
your country which I yearn to stays probably with your cooperate
assistance, of course this was my actual plights of reaching you.

Yes, there were recent problems in my family because of arguments to
some matters much like my father's saw mill; private lands, old industry
and a housing estate as there were no any writing by Dad respecting
these properties

As you can see I need yours assistance as I wanted immediate transfer's
to your country, I personally inherited some amount which is about
$4.000.000 from my Dad as noted above, I believed Great times has indeed
made this possible as I also decided to express these via this mailing
to you if only you could support my plights Thanks, Please reply.

Charles P.Toure

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