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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Stanley K. Cloude" <jrwnet1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: info.kmf@gmx.com
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:23:56 -0800
Subject: Hope you are doing fine


*Dear,*

*I and my sister want to know you... My name is Stanley and my younger
sister Susan. We are from a country called Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) here
in West Africa. We lost our both parents and our little brother during
political crisis in our country, they were assassinated by the rebels. I am
16 years old and my younger sister is 12 years old. We were schooling in
Ghana when our parents and little brother were killed during the political
crisis. We lost everything and we don't know anybody in Ivory Coast because
we stay in Ghana, we have gone to the police to declare ourselves to see if
anybody that relates to our parents will come for us but nobody came for us
up till this moment, we live in the refugee camp. Today we decided to
search on the internet for a trustworthy person that can assist us to
further our education. Meanwhile our late father was a Gold merchant /
Cocoa, Café exporter before he died and our mummy was a house wife. The
only thing that is left for us is a Trunk Box our parents deposited in a
security company here in Ivory Coast which contains (US$500,000) Five
Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars and Gold bars worth of $12.7 Million U.S
Dollars according to what its written in the letter sent to us by our late
father before the political crisis started, including the documents that
prove the deposit of the Trunk Box to the Security Company for safe
keeping. We have tried to discuss with that security company for the
release of our late father's Trunk Box that is under their custody but they
said they cannot release it to us because of our age so they advised us to
look for our late father's lawyer or any of our father's foreign business
partners that can receive the Trunk Box on our behalf. We don't know how
and where to locate our late father's lawyer but as we came across your
email on the internet we decided to take the risk to write you for help
despite we don't know you but it's better we take risks to hand over this
Trunk Box to you than to die in starvation without taking this risk to give
out the information that will lead to the release of this Trunk Box. We
believe if you receive it God will touch your heart not to abandon us in
suffering. If you can help us to get this Trunk Box from this security
company and help us invest that money in a good business in your country
then from their be taking care of us and our education until we are matured
enough to handle things by ourselves, we will be very happy and will take
you as our parent forever. Please we want you to give us a response that
will make us to have hope of good living again. You can read the full
details of the crisis from CNN new here
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/01/ivory.coast.unrest/
<http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/01/ivory.coast.unrest/> *



*Yours Sincerely,*

*Stanley & Susan*

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