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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: Aicha Mainassra <christelebany11@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mainassraaicha100@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:43:00 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Confidential Urgent message from Miss Aicha


My respected  one,


 


 


It is my greatest pleasure to send you this mail with trust you and to seek for your urgent
assistance.


 


I
am Miss Aicha Mainassra 24 years old  gilr  from Bassam Ivory Coast,
West Africa. My reason of contacting you is purely based on seeking your
SINCERE and TRUSTWORTHY partnership.





To tell you more about me, I
am a single your girl and the only child of my late parents Mr and Mrs
Hassan Mainassra and I am living here in Abidjan, the capital city of
Cote d' Ivoire in West Africa.


 


I was a student at a university
here studying mass communication but the sudden death of my father last
year forced me to discontinue my studies because no one could sponsor my
studies again..


 


My mother died many
years back when I was just four years old and since then I have been
with my father and he took me so special. His death was so sudden and
was caused by food poisoning as the doctor said in his death certificate
but we are suspecting one of my uncle who always travel with him any
time he is making overseas trip as the person who planned his death,
well only God knows the truth.


 


The issue now is that I want to
move out of this country immediately to a more secure place where I will
live for the rest of my life because since the death of my father, his
brother's and other family relatives have all taken over all my late
father's belongings including his business and houses and they don't
even want to consider me because I am a girl and from their crude
culture here, girls are not allowed to pocess anything from the family
until they are married.


 


In my own case, my father was a business
man who always export cocoa to europe and he
made a lot of money from this business and own lot of properties and
houses, his brothers have taken control of all these things and they can
even kill me too if I should ask about them.


 


For this reason, I
don't want to be associated with them again. However, my father
confided a secret to me before his death in a hospital here. He told me
that he deposited the sum of ONE MILLION , FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND  UNITED
STATES OF AMERICAN DOLLARS ($1,500.000)  with a Fnancial institution
(bank) here and no one knows about this,  He also told me that he used
my name as the next of kin in depositing  the funds in the bank and also
handed over the depository documents to me.


He told me that it was
because of his wealth that he was poisoned and that I should seek a
trustworthy person in a country of my choice who could assist me to
claim and invest this money after the fund get transfered to the pârtner
bank account.


My dear ,
this is the main reason I contacted you. I want you to help me claim
this funds from the bank here and transfer this funds to your country
and also help me to relocate to your country to continue my  education
and life over there.


 


This country is no longer safe for my
continual stay because every day here I am living under the fear of
those my late father's relatives. I am no longer living in my family
house because they might try to kill me since they want to inherit all
my late father's properties.


 


I am now living in a guest house
here and I want to move out of the country finally with this funds and I
need your help. If you agree to help me, I will compensate you with 15%
of the total sum and also you will manage this funds in any good
investment while I will continue my studies and every income made will
be shared between us.


 


Thank you and I look forward to your
positive response and i need your full
contact details with address and pictures and as soon as i receive your
response then i will send to you the contact of the bank with all my
personal information such as


 


Name complet::::





Telephone:::::::::::





Address :::::::::





Age:::::::::::::





Occupation:::::::::::





marital status:::::::





I am waiting for your urgent response  with thr above information before we can proceed





Your's sincerely





Aicha

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