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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: "lovelin_v1@hotmail.fr" <lovelin_v1@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: lovelin_v8@yahoo.com.ar
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:35:27 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Calvary Greetings,




Calvary Greetings,



Though this letter may come to you as surprise, since you don't know me personally before, but please kindly open your mind to help me and treat me like your own blood relation, it is by the grace of God that I found your contact recently, because it has been very difficult for me to find a sincere person to entrust on this urgent request transaction and to help me out of my affliction today,



I am Miss Lovelin Vincent, the only child of Late Chief Vincent Williams. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan and also a

government contractor in our country Ivory Coast, the economic capital of Ivory Coast, my father was killed during the political war crisis here in our country ivory coast by the rebel force of pro Allasan Ouattara the new president.



After the death of my father i was arranging his room which i found some documents related to a deposit of a trunk box with a security firm here in our country, going through the documents i found out that the trunk box was deposited with a security firm here by my late father contain the sum of $5.5M Usd (Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars)



Since the death of my father I have been unable to claim the trunk box from the security firm because they request a foreign beneficiary outside Ivory Coast who the box will be ship to as the foreign beneficiary,since my late father deposited it to the security firm as family valuable name withheld.



This is why i am contacting you because I need your help to stand as a foreign beneficiary to claim the the trunk box from the security firm while you will help me to invest the money to real estate management or any good business that might favor us for good profit and i will join to your country for the continuity of my education.Meanwhile, i have mapped out 15% from the total money for you for all your assistance to me



Most reason, i want to leave is because my later father brothers which is my uncles are maltreating bad and they have seized all my late father belonging from me just because i am a teenager as i have no one to speak for me upon that they have drove me out my father house as they have occupied everything.



My life is not safe here and i need to be out of here as soon as possible because if my uncles should know about the trunk box in the security firm as they may try to kill me so that they can have it, thank God they are not aware of this trunk box in the security firm.



I am waiting for your urgent reply so that i can give you more details and also send all the documents to you to go through and to introduce you to the security firm for the releasing of the trunk box to you immediately.



Please, Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible.



Thank you so much and God bless you and your family.



Your Lovely,



Miss Lovelin.

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