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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: "Mr.Abu Hadi" <abu_hadi7@aol.fr>
Reply-To: abuhadi69@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 20:47:27 GMT
Subject: Greeting dear friend,

Greeting dear friend,
My name is Abu Hadi from Cote d'voire presently in Burkina Faso right now where I hide my self in a local hotel here I'm 22 years old boy, my father is one of the security leader of  my uncle Laurent Gbagbo, they killed my father  on the process of capturing my uncle Laurent Gbagbo after declaring him wanted by the rebels soldier since then my mother was down which lead her to heart attack I surfer carrying her from one hospital to another  and she did not make it may her soul rest in peace she died last month, and before her death she gave me the file documents of our inheritance fund which my father deposited in Access Trust Security Company here in Burkina Faso Ouagadougou here where I'm writing you from.
Please for God's sake I'm seeking for good honest and sincere person who will stand for me so that I can be able to claim and move out this my inheritance fund from the Access Security Trust Company so that I will follow the person to its country to invest my fund in a very good investment that will yield good profit because there is no more peace in my country Cote d'voire since they capture my uncle Laurent Gbagbo
The amount which my father package in a trunk box and deposited in the Security company as family valuable items while the war was going on in my country is the sum of $2,8M two million eight hundred thousand united state dollars and the security company director Dr David Okita is not aware that the trunk box contain cash
Waiting for your urgent reply with your phone number so that I will call you and direct you on what to do to help me out
From a friend Abu Hadi
 
 

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