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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: michelle knight <marilobouabre18@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: michelle knight <michelleknight2013@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 22:44:40 +0900 (JST)
Subject: I am Michelle, 22 years old.


I am Michelle, 22 years old and also the only daughter of late Chief Aso Andrew, a cocoa cafe merchant based in Ivory Coast. And my younger brother Vicent who is 19 years old. We lost our mother when we where very small as result of the love that our father has for his wife that is our mother, he did not remarry he single handedly raise us up until his sudden death.

My father deposited 15 million dollars in a BANK.

Few months ago, while on his way to the airport for a business trip in America, his greedy and wicked brothers who happen to be his business associate killed him which one of them have confessed to the police that he have a hand in his death He was urgently taken to a specialist hospital where he
unfortunately died five days later. Before my father gave up , as the only daughter of the family, he privately informed me about the $15 million dollars he deposited in the BANK that it was as a result of this money that his brothers are against him.

He instructed me to go to his underground safe in our family villa and collect the file containing the documents covering the money in the Bank and look for a reliable and trustworthy foreign partner to help me transfer the fund abroad for investment to enable me and my younger brother leave this country to further our education.
Upon the advice of my late father I have been on a desperate search for someone to trust until I came across your contact and decided to contact you to help us.
Honestly we will reward you immediately after the transaction with 20% of the fund on your assistance to us for immediate transfer of the money into your account. Because, we are the next target of the
killers, therefore I and my younger brother decided to leave our home town for a hide-out in Abidjan; from there we are contacting you. So on your acceptance to help us, we shall provide you more details about the fund documentation.

Looking forward to your response.

Michelle and Vicent.

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