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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: annickamani1 <annickamani1@zoho.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:11:01 -0700
Subject: Greeting From Annick.



Greeting From Annick.

I am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow from my heart. With due respect trust and humanity, I know this mail will come to you as a surprise since we haven't known or come across each other before considering the fact that I sourced your email contact through the Internet in search of trusted person who can assist me.

i am the only daughter of late Mr Foto Amani, a cocoa farmer and the late adviser to Alassane Ouattara, the winner of the last year presidential election that was heald here in our country Cote d’Ivoire my father died on the,23rd day of january 2011. after a suspected assassination by some group of uniformed military men loyal and sent by the former president Laurent Gbagbo.

before the death of my father,he told me that he left a deposit of the sum of US$ 7.5 Million in cash concealed in a trunk box and deposits it with a Security Company here in cote d'ivoire with my name as the depositor.and gave the Company instrucion not to release the trunk box to me for security reason until when i present to them his foreign business partner who was the beneficiary of the trunk box that will come to make the claim on my behalf,then help me to invest the money.

he also,told me that whenever i locate some one who will agree to volunteer himself to assist me in making the claim of this trunk box on my behalf as the beneficiary,i should also explain to the person about some other of his investments and properties he left for me so that,the person will help me and sell them and use all the money for investment untill when i finish my education and handle my investment myself.

My late father handed over the documents of this deposit to me before his untimely death, Now as he is dead, I wish to seek for your partnership to assist me to move this trunk box to your country for investment and also scuerd a student visa for me. This is 100% risk free and I will give you 30% of the total amount involve.

Once i hear from you now, I will send you the full confidential details of the deposit as a good partner that I can trust to assist me and make the claim of this trunk box out from here. Can I trust you in this transaction? If you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail signifying your interest in helping me to make the claim of the trunk box so that the company will deleiver it to your country for my comeing over, we will discuss more about the matter before i will ask the company to give their contact informations to send to you so that, you will contact the company directly and discuss with them.

This transaction is risk free hence we can perfect it within few days upon your readiness’ am presently now in United Nation Refugee Camp in Cote d’Ivoire and i will like you to reach me now for more details about the deposit and what you need to do for the company to release the trunk box to you for deleiverring when you will contact them as the real beneficiary and my late father foreign business partner.

pls,if you have any question to ask me about anything,ask me and i will answer you without delay.

Your information is requested.

(1) Your Full name...................
(2) Your Full address................
(3) Your telephone/Fax Numbers.......

i will stop here for now and wait to hear from you as soon as you receive and read this message so that,i will know the next thing to do without delay.

reply me back with this id for more details (annick_amani1@yahoo.co.jp)

Annick Amani.














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