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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: Paul Abehi <aka_mariam2004@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: Paul Abehi <paul_abehi@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:46:34 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?SGksIGkgbmVlZCB5b3VyIGltbWVkaWF0ZSByZXNwb25zZSBwbGVhc2Uu4oCP?=




 
Hello,

My name is Sergent Paul Abehi, I am presently on political exile in Ghana.

During the post-electoral war of 2011 in Cote d'Ivoire(Ivory coast), I was an active member of the Presidential Guards and part of the force that fought in defense of the former president of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), president Laurent Gbagbo who is currently under trial at the War Crime Tribunal in Holland.

I kept a sum of 950,000 Euros in a metallic trunk Briefcase and deposited it in a Security and Finance Company in Cote d'Ivoire. After the capture of the former president, some of our soldiers were killed, in which it was believed that I am part of the dead soldiers.

Before escaping out of Cote d'Ivoire, I have initially started a shipment process of the Briefcase to Canada, but when all the offices were closed because of the war, the processing was on pause.

Now that there is new government in Cote d'Ivoire, I don't have the opportunity to return back to my country until after 10 years because I have been declared dead, whereas I am alive here in Ghana.

I wrote the security company director secretly, demanding for his cooperation, quoting all details and the necessary initial shipment procedures and the security company said the process is irreversible, that is, I cannot change the destination of the shipment, just need to make sure that someone in Canada stands as the recipient of the shipment. The security company doesn't know the actual content of the Briefcase, I have declared it as gold and diamonds for security reasons.

The Briefcase has recently been shipped to Canada through Diplomatic Courier and I have contacted you based on this task. I want you to be my partner confidentially, I will recommend you to the agent in charge in Canada you will meet with him for the collection of the Briefcase on my behalf. After that, you will keep the Briefcase with you and make arrangement for me to join you in your country and we can invest the money together. We can negotiate about your percentage from this fund for your effort and honesty. But I am willing to give you 25% of the funds.

Please reply me if this interests you.

Best regards,
Sergent Paul Abehi.

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