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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: angelo4real@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:03:19 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: hi




Hello



I am Alfred Wallace, The son of Dr Gomez Wallace, former interior minister and a great politician in Cote d ivoire political arena. Because of my father's sincerity, He was killed on the 11th of april 2010 by unknown soldiers in his residential house during the coup plot in cote d' ivoire. Before his death he disclosed to me about the diplomatic box he deposited in a security company containing us$21.5 million dollars and my name was the next of kin and the original document of deposit is intact. The fear of money not raising eyebrows here in cote d' ivoire I decided to contact you seeking for your help to claim the right ownership of the consignment.



My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give you this priority of shipping the box of money to any address that you think is very secure and save in your country for onward lodgement in your account and for the purpose of future investment with your percentage of which we shall chat on soon.



I want to assure you that this transaction is 100 % risk free as no other person knows this box apart from me and my sister.Also the Security company didn't know the real content of the box, because it was deposited as a family valuables. I will send you the Authorization Certificate to call them in my next mail which is the Certificate of deposit that they gave my late father on the very day when the box of money was deposited under their company. I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from you soon for quick conclusion of this business



Thanks for your co-operation and God bless.



Best regard



Alfred Wallace

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