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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: Fhanata <fhanata1@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: : ;
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:39:13 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Aid


My Dear,



I don't know how my generosity offer may sound
to you, especially as it comes from a stranger, I am contacting you
through a magazine which I picked here in my hospital sick bed as it's
the only chance I had to give my wealth away for Gods Work due to my
illness . My name is Ms Fhanata Kokudor, I married to Mr. Michel Kokudor
who was a Cocoa and Gold merchant in Ivory Coast for 21 years before he
died on second november 2007, we were married for eleven years without a
child, He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.


Since
his death I decided not to remarry or get a Child outside my
matrimonial home, because of my bad stage of health in 2008 , I sold all
my inherited properties and belongings and deposited the fund which was
amounted to the sum of three million five hundred thousand United State
Dollars. ($3.500,000USD) in one of the leading bank here in Ivory Coast
. My doctor told me on Monday that I should start looking for whom to
will my wealth due to my Cancer and Stroke sickness, he made it clear to
me that he is not going to guarantee my life in this surgery.


I
will like to hand you over this fund and my properties as a donation to
establish a medical clinic to help disease affected people who can not afford their medical expenses or to
establish a
manufacturing company to create job opportunity for jobless people as I
cant invest it here in Ivory Coast due to recent bloody political
crisis, I want to hand over this fund to you as it was my vow to
establish charity project before I leave the world. I took this decision
because I don't have any Child that will inherit this fund, and my
husband relatives have seized all his investments due to that I don't
have a Child.


I don't need any telephone communication in
this regard because of my condition and I don't want anybody to know
about this project, as soon as you response to this message I will
inform the bank for immediate transfer of this fund to your personal
bank account for this project, I will offer you 20 percent of the total
fund for any expenses that may occur during this charity work, and I
want you to always pray for me for my up coming surgery,


Yours Sister,
Ms Fhanata.

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