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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: "Richard Konate" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <richkonate@skymail.mn>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:35:04 -0200
Subject: From :Mr Richard Konate

>From :Mr Richard Konate

Abidjan Cote d'ivoire


Dear Friend,

I work as a staff in account/operation department in a bank here in Ivory Coast west Africa.

I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. I got your contact from the world trade center (W.T.C.) regional office in ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE the details of my intention was not made
known to them.

On June 6 1999, an oil consultant / contractor with the ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE National Petroleum Corporation, MR.Gunes Melnicov made a numbered time(fixed) deposited for twelve calendar months valued at
US$3,000,000.00 (Three Million united states dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contact employers COTE D'IVOIRE National Petroleum corporation that MR.Gunes Melnicov,died along with his entire family in an auto crash.

On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigationand discovered that MR.Gunes Melnicov, did not declare
any next of kin in all his official documents,including his Bank Deposit paperwork. This sum of US$3,000,000.00 is still sitting in the Bank and the
interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one has come forward or will come for the claims .

According to the ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE Law, at the expiration of 6 (six) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the COTE D'IVOIRE Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Consequently, my
proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to MR.Gunes Melnicov, so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials here in Cote D'ivoire.


This is simple,
1. I will like you to provide me immediately with your full names and address so that i will start to programme your name as the next of kin to this fixed deposit account.Upon the sucsessful completion of this programming,the bank will then acknowledge you as the next of kin to the original beneficiary.

2. A bank account in any part of the world, which you will provide, will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 30% for you.The remaining 10% will be used to settle every expenses incured during the course of this transaction.

There is no risk as all the paper work for this transaction will be done by an attorney and my position as a staff of this bank, guaranttees the successful execution of this deal.

If you are interested, please reply immediately via this email address . Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant information that will help you understand the deal very well.

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply and you can also feel free to call me for more clearifications on my telephone number below .

Thanks and best regards
Mr Richard Konate



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