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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: Prisca Amoah <amoah.prisca@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: amoah.prisca@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 17:06:32 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hello dear,




Hello dear,



My name is Miss Prisca Amoah The daughter of late Mr. and Mrs. Amoah N'guessan of Zimbabwe during the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the support of our President. Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all the white farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members and his followers. My father is one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not support Mugabe’s ideas, Mugabe’s supporters invaded my father’s farm and burnt everything in the farm, killed my father and made away a lot of items in my father’s farm.



Before his death, my father had deposited with one of the prime bank in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire the sum of US$3.5( Three million Five hundred thousand United state Dollars ) After the burial of my father, I decided to move to the Republic of Cote D,Ivoire for my safety, to verified the existence of the money and to look for honest and trustworthy person who will assist me to retrieve the money from the bank in cote d’ivoire, He deposited the money in the bank with my name as next of kin to the money for investment purpose, and study, i learnt in your country they have good schools and masters, so I will like to continue my studies in in sciences, i need your assistance to move this money to your country. So that i will make an arrangement on how to come over to your country to begin a new life and destiny.



Once i hear from you based on my request, i will send you my photo in which you will use in recognizing me during my arrival in your country airport.



Thank you and God bless you and your family.

Sincerely,

Miss. Prisca Amoah

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