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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 Muslimah Abdullah <abdulmusl@graduate.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:46:55 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Dear Colleague


 
 
Dear Colleague,

My name is Miss Muslimah Abdullah an Australian citizen ,Im an orphan now 22 years old single girl & I study geology at University of Cocody Abidjan.My father Dr.Zaimudd Abdullah is a medical Doctor from Perth western Australia citizen,why my mother is from cote d I'voire worked with the oil and gas ministry cote d I'voire populary known as Ivory Coast.

Due to the relationship of my parents my mother assisted my father to gain a contracts to the former first lady of this country cote d I'voire Mrs. Simon Gbagbo the wife of the former president Gbagbo.Because of political crises in cote d'Ivoire I lost My boths parents during the war in 27th of March 2011 you can google out(Duekoue city crises) to read about the full story.

my mother deposited ($5,000,000.00 )Five million United state of American Dollar in one bank here in cote d'Ivoire in which my name is the next of kin Iam asking for your assistance to help me retrieve this fund to your account at you country. After the eventual stage of this tranfer I will offer you %15 of the total fund as a compensation then %85 will be for me,also you will help me to channel this fund in a good profitable business also assist me to come over to your country to continue,

my education beasuse my late mothers brother betrayed me by claims & selling my late Mothers properties he threat me to give him deposite documents of this fund so that he will claim it,I ran out of the house & right now I hide my self in One Local Mosque.I want to move out here for the safety of my life.You are advised to kindly reply this email with the below details enclosed to help the bank process your the transaction;
 
(1) Full Names:
(2) Residential Address:
(3) Current Phone Number:
(4) Age:
(5) Country of Residence:
(6) Occupation:

If you can be trusted for more information about this Proposal, I await your immediate response.

 
Regards With love,

Muslimah.







 

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