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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: Djeneba Bamba <djebamba@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: Djeneba Bamba <bamba.dje@hotmail.fr>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:06:20 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hi, I need your immediate response, please



I am Miss. Djeneba Bamba, from Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire. I need your assistance as a new partner to help me collect my briefcase containing some millions of dollars desposited in a safekeeping firm here in Ivory Coast. My father, a key politician, kept it with a UN worker late Miss. Zahra Abidi so that it would be taken to Abroad for safekeeping as the war errupted last year in Abidjan, Cote d'ivoire.

My father died shortly after depositing the briefcase with Miss. Zahra Abidi and unfortunately Miss. Zahra Abidi also died on 31st of March by a stray bullet. But before her death, she had already concluded an arrangement to send the briefcase abroad through a diplomatic means which the safekeeping firm is now waiting for a final order to send out the briefcase as the terms of agreement during the deposit which stipulated that the briefcase should be sent abroad to a partner whose name and contact details would be given at an appropriate time.

Since then, the safekeeping firm has been calling me for the collection of the briefcase by the foreign partner, in otherwords, they are expecting me to submit unto them the name and contact details of the foreign partner and they want the foreign partner to establish a contact with them so that they will conclude an arrangement on how to send the briefcase to him or her. You can also come down here if you want so that you can meet with the firm and collect the briefcase because I am just a girl of 21years and I don't want to lose this heritage as this is what I count on to build my future. This is the reason I want you to help me as fast as possible as a partner to contact the firm for the sending of the briefcase to you through a diplomatic means, they promised this.

When you have collected the briefcase, you will keep it for me. Then I will give you the key to open the briefcase after collecting it through a diplomatic means so that you will take some money from the briefcase and send it to me, then I will join you in your country and we shall invest the money together as I cannot stay here anymore due to bad political and economic situation.

I will offer you 20% of the total money if you are able to help me contact the firm, conclude all the arrangement with them and receive the briefcase sent to your country. Please note that the firm does not know that the briefcase contains money, late Miss. Zahra Abidi declared it contains Gold and Diamonds.

I want to build trust in you by giving you this opportunity, please be a honest person. If this proposal interests you, please reply by sending me your full name, address, telephone number and other personal information so that I can know the person I am dealing with.

I am urgently expecting your response because the firm said it should be retrieved on time to avoid accumulation of charges.

Regards,
Djeneba

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