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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: Patience Vincent <patvin1@live.fr>
Reply-To: patiencevincent@ymail.com
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:58:09 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Please reply immediately for more details




Dearly beloved,



With due respect I am contacting you to help me and my little son out of the problem before us.



My husband before his untimely death instructed that I should escape with our only child to Ghana being the neighboring country during the crisis in Cote Ivoire and if the crisis end that I should look for a reliable person outside Cote D`Ivoire who will assist me to claim his money worth the sum of ($15m USD) which he deposited in one of the banks here in Abidjan as fix,



Please this is my main reason of contacting you now so I will explain better when I get your reply to help us out.I hope to hear from you as soon as possible.



Thanks,



Mrs Patience Vincent.

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