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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: koro toure <korotoure6@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: koro toure <koro_toure01@voila.fr>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:05:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU!!


 Dear Friend,

With due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose, I make this contact with you as I believe that you can be of great
assistance to me. My name is Mr. Koro Toure, from Cotonou Benin Republic West
Africa. Presently I work in the ECOBANK Benin as telex manager. I have been
searching for your contact since you left our country some years ago.

I
do not know whether this is your correct email address or not because I only
used your name initials to search for your contact .In case you are not the
person I am supposed to Contact, please see this as a confidential message and
do not reveal it to another person And do let me know whether you can be of
assistance regarding my proposal below because it is top secret. I am

about to retire from active Bank service to start a new life but I am skeptical
to reveal this particular secret to a stranger. You must assure me that
everything will be handled confidentially because we are not going to suffer
again in life.

It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African
Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their
Political advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores
of Africa were gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop
the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before
transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of
the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was
transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after
transfer. I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the politicians and when I
discovered that they where using me to succeed in their greedy act; I

also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared
to ask me because the money was too much for them to control. They laundered
over $5b Dollars during the process .As I am sending this message to you; I was
able to divert eleven million five hundred thousand united state dollars
($11.5m) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is
anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is because they have made a
lot of profits with the funds.

It is more than Eight years now and most
of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas. The
($11.5) Million Dollars has been laying waste but I don't want to retire from
the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share
the proceeds with the receiver. The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% For you

There is no one coming to ask you about the funds because I
secured everything. I only want you to assist me by providing a bank account
where the funds can be transferred. You are not to face any difficulties or
legal implications as I am going to handle the Transfer personally. If you are
capable of receiving the funds, do let me know immediately to enable me give you
a detailed information on what to do.
For me, I have not stolen the money
from anyone because the other people that took the whole money did not face any
problems. This is my chance also to grab my own but you must keep the details of
the funds secret to avoid any leakages as no one in the bank knows about the
funds. Please get back to me if you are interested and capable to handle this
project as I shall intimate you on what to do when I hear your confirmation and
acceptance.

If you are capable of being my trusted associate, do declare
your consent to me.

Waiting for your urgent response
Yours
Faithfully,

Mr. Koro Toure,

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