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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: "Mr.Elvis Kuame" <rsmmmka@live.fr>
Reply-To: elvismensah@o2.pl
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:08:34 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From Mr.Kuame,


From Mr.Elvis Kuame.

 
How

are you and your family? As the world is defined as a global village, I
don’t want you to get this letter as a surprise but as an opportunity
that will put smile on your face.first of all I want you to give this letter good understanding,If
you can guarantee me from your own side, your trust,honesty, I will be
able to work with you.I will appreciate if you can come down yourself
and see things for yourself before we proceed and this will make things
clearer for us.
 
I am Mr.Elvis Kuame, an accountant with one of the bank here in (Ivory
Coast) I am writing in respect of a France Citizen ( Mr.Bouchout
Geoffroy) been a customer here in our bank,dual citizen of France, who
died  in a Plane crash on Monday 2ND September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while
they were flying from New York to
Geneva.
   

I wish to inform you that  late Mr.Bouchout Geoffroy left the sum
of four million eight hundred United States Dollars ($4.8million) here
in our bank, I
investigated this out during our last auditing as chief accountant, that
is why i solicit your urgent assistance for this so that we should work
together and get this fund transfer into your safe account and invest
with this money in a tangible business there in your country for a
better tomorrow of our both families.
 Based on the code of conduct in our work, we are not allowed to own or
run a foreign account while still on service, it was as a matter of this
fact I decided to contact you so that you will stand as the fund
beneficiary after we
may
agreed to work together and ask the bank to transfer this fund into
your account. ; upon your response i will give you the next step
to take for the transfer processing on your name.

I have all the formalities to legalize it on your name.  Note that all
the modalities of this transfer are percent RISK FREE hence i am working with
this bank.hope to hear from you very urgent for us to proceed immediately.

 
Sincerely,
 
Mr.Elvis Kuame.



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