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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: Blandine XAVIER <s1070371rum@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Blandine XAVIER <bxavier0732@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 19:02:43 +0900 (JST)
Subject: HI


Hi,

Surely,
I know you will be surprise receiving this letter from me and transaction of
this magnitude will make any one get worried, but I am assuring you that all
will be well at the end of the day because this is a great favor to you. With
due respect, let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am
Miss. Blandine Xavier, 30 years old, I base in USA with my mother. 

Have
no fear; I am contacting you because I prayed for several nights for God to
give me the contact of a trusted person to whom I could entrust this matter.
When my father was still working, he was a man of Business in Africa and he
touch many areas of business like Gold Dust, Cocoa and etc, some of which have
not been legal. Know that I promised to give you 25-30 percentage of this money
to you and your family the rest money will be kept for me and my mother.

If I
chose to contact you is because, I wish that this operation is done in utmost
discretion without too much publicity because of my previous activities. I wish
that you agree to serve legal administrator (beneficiary). I am writing this
letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met
ourselves previously. I am asking for your assistance, I will be so glad if you
can allow and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance to my
situation now. I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity.

My
father died 2 months ago, due to serious sickness in France. I came to Abidjan
- Ivory Coast to see my late father lawyer who called me after the burial, to
inform me that my father deposited a sum of $4,800,000 US dollars in one of the
leading local bank in Ivory Coast. 
Unfortunately
the money was deposit in a FIXED DOMICILIARY account here in Abidjan, due to
the crisis of this country; meanwhile am saddled with the problem of securing a
trust worthy foreign personality to help me transfer this money over to his
account and into his possession pending my arrival to meet with him.

Conclusively
wish you send me a reply immediately as soon as you receive this proposal. I am
ready to re-locate to meet you after the successful transfer of the fund, if
you can assist me.

Until
then, am looking forward to read from you. 

Best
regards 
Miss
Blandine

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