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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: "Nicole Goda" <nicole_gd22@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:48:04 +0400
Subject: From Miss Nicole Goda Remain Bless




From:Miss Nicole Goda,

Hello Dear,

Please don't be offended, I know you might be surprised on recieving this
mail but i plead you to acknowledge and Permit me to inform you my aims of
writting to you. Truely I haven't known you physically but i have my
desire of going unto
relationship with you By brief introduction, I am Miss Nicole Goda ,
Daugther of late Mr. and Mrs Adam Goda and I am age of 19years i
contacting you based on the situation which i am about to tell you here
because today, i am a complete orphan without mother, without father and
without brother or sisters.

I lost my parents in a ghasty road accident in years 2008 which my mother,
my little brother and Carol my junior sister died instantly but my father
was hospitalised few days before he gave up, my father was holding a
strategic Economic post as the C.E President Board of Producers and
exporters of Cocoa and coffee in our country and as result, he was a
target even to his own blood brother.

So please, the reason why I contacted you is, before my father died, as if
he know what will happen later behind him,there were some documents he
secretly directed to me about his investment budget worth of US$12.5
million dollars which he deposited in one of the well known bank here on
behalf of his foriegn business partner for foreign investments.

Please,i will like to make you my Next of Kin and trustee and to present
you to the bank as my late father's foreign investment partner for the
money to be transferred to you so that it can be put into use in your
country on joint investment before i could join you over there.

To tell you, since the death of my parents, his brothers / relatives has
been seriously chasing me around with constant treats, to suppress and
eliminate me and take over all my father's properties because i have
refused to hand them
over my late father's properties. According to our blind custom and
tradition,a female child cannot inherite her late parents properties.

Now,they have successfully collected all properties from me, yet they
never stoped there, but going so far to treat my life brings fear to me
now, i need your urgent help and assistance because this is where only
everything he laboured for in his life time remains for me.

Based on this reasons,I believe I can trust you like i have said before,
Show me your goodwill to give me this assistance so that I can handover to
you all the documents about the money.

I plead and will appreciate your kindness in order to actualise this
immense co-operation,

I await your very urgent answer.

Regard,

Miss Nicole Goda.

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