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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: Ayaia Budanov <mrs.ayaiabudanov40@outlook.fr>
Reply-To: <AyaiaBu-danov@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 11:33:14 +0100
Subject: My dear friend,


My dear friend,


Compliments of the season, Please pardon me for receiving this letter from me because we don’t know before but I am obliged to contact you through this medium been the only fastest mean to communicate my plea to you. Please take time to read so that you can understand the contents well because I want to have partnership with you. My name is MRS.AYAIA BUDANOV from Kazan in RUSSIA, Wife of (LATE MR. DIMITRI BUDANOV).Before the death of my husband, he was a real-estate Broker and coffee merchant. I want to be honest and sincere to you; I got your email contact from your site while making research to find a reliable partner for this project because my dream is to go to a country where my late husband's relatives will not see me anymore because of their ill-treatments to me, because I have suffered so much in their hands since after my husband's death and funeral. A very bad experience I had.


In brief, my husband was poisoned to death by some of his business colleagues on a business outing. Since after his death, I have no peace of mind because of the pressure from his family relatives (brothers in particular) as they’re seriously on my neck with conspiracy with the family lawyer to release to them my late husband’s properties. This family problem according to them is because I didn’t have any child for their late brother. Because of my relationship with my husband, he told me before his death about this money (10.500.000 USD) he has in a bank in Côte d'Ivoire, which he deposited for project purpose, mainly to extend his coffee company branches in Côte d'Ivoire before his death. None of his family relatives is aware of this particular deposit and they will never know about it because they will definitely take it from me as well because they’re very selfish and wicked.Because my late husband’s brothers took all his properties from me, I made up my mind to escape from them since I have the information of the money my husband deposited in Cote d’Ivoire. I am therefore seeking your kind assistance with honesty to partner with me to receive and invest this fund in your country as I desire to settle down over there to lead better life, instead of making problems with my late husband’s brothers because they can kill me. So this is why I decided to leave Russia to Cote d’Ivoire in a discrete manner because I will not go back to Russia again after the successful transfer of the fund to your country and I join you over there, to settle down and also plan for our profitable lifelong joint venture.Let me ask you, Can I trust you 100% with this project? Can you help me to get residence permit in your country upon my arrival over there and give me the maximum security I need with this fund? Can you lead to us making lifelong profitable joint venture investment with this fund in your country without any problems? I need answers to these questions, please.My plan is that, you will keep 10% of the total sum as your compensation and my appreciation to say thanks to you for your kind help to me to transfer the fund successful to your country. I will also keep 10% for my personal usage. Then the remaining of 80% will be used for our joint venture which shall be fully under your control for more profit making. What is your own opinion about this plan?As soon as I have your response to this email confirming our joint partnership, I will give you the name and contact information of the bank where the fund is, so that you can communicate directly with the bank director general for arrangements towards the quick transfer into your own bank account, to enable our quick uniting in your country the soonest for our joint venture establishment.


>From the depth of my heart, I thank you so much for your time taken to go through my email and have it mind that everything I explained to you herein is true and not just ordinary story. Also, this transaction is 100% risk free and the fund is genuine and clean, not government fund, stolen money, drug money or money laundry. This is for your kind information and security guaranty.Remain blessed and my warmest regards to your family. I’m expecting to hear from you soonest.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Ayaia Budanov.

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