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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: Miss Cynthia Adams <adamscy193@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 15:40:53 +0200
Subject: Good Day My Dear


Good Day My Dear,

With hope that this mail reaches you in good condition of health, my name
is Miss Cynthia Adams; I am an adopted daughter of late Dr. Jacob Adams a
well known business man in Ivory Coast, who died on the 15th of September
2013, at the age of 72.

At the moment we have finalized with the funeral ceremony of my late
father, presently our family has turned their back on me because I was
adopted against their Wish, this is just because they are jealous of me and
they doesn’t want me to be a part of their family anymore and I do not Wish
to go back to the Motherless Babies Home (orphanage) where my late parents
adopted me, so i need to do something to start a new life once again and
that is why i am contacting you today.

Because of the confidence my late father had in me before his death, he
told me that he has a sum of Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand USA
Dollars ($7,500.000.00) deposited in a Bank, and he made me to understand
that he used me as his next of kin not minding my age, so because of my
age; I will need your assistance to move the fund out from the bank here
for investment thereof over there in your country, as I am still a little
girl of no financial experience, so you have to help me on this issue.

If you assist me to get this fund out from the bank, I will offer you 15%
of the total sum as compensation for effort input after the successful
transfer of the fund into your own bank account before starting the
investment project in your country.

I will be waiting for your response

Yours Sincerely
Miss Cynthia Adams

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