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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: Yvon Massicotte <lawannitrading@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Yvon Massicotte <yvon.massicotte@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 13:34:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: May God bless and help us.


 My Dear,

With all due respect and humility I write you this proposal which I believe would be of great interest to
you. I am Mrs: Yvon Massicotte, a Sierra Leone national and wife of the late Dr. Giles Massicotte of blessed memory.
Before my husband assassination by rebels loyal to Foday Sankoh, he was the Director General National Gold Diamond Mining Corporation of Sierra Leone.
Two days before my husband was assassinated, he instructed me and my two sons Tony and Frank to leave Sierra Leone immediately.
Before the powerful Economic Community of West African States (ECOMOG) forces intervened which eventually resulted in a brutal civil war.
I and my children managed to escape to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with the help of a friend of my husband who is a trawler.
We came into Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with some amount of money, including an amount of U.S. $ 18 million million U.S. dollars ONLY EIGTHEEN) in two trunk boxes which I deposited in a private security company here in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on behalf of My son (TONY Massicotte ).
For your information, we do not reveal the true contents of safety boxes to the security company and do not want them to know this under any circumstances. Instead, we deposit boxes and containing the value of the family.

However, I want to leave Abidjan, Ivory Coast, entirely with this money for investment in your country due to the stable political situation and mostly for the future of my children.
I am currently looking for a foreign partner who will help me retrieve and serve as guardian of this fund with whom I can plan the best way out of this fund for investment purposes which is my
reason for contacting you.

In addition, you will be asked to assist in the following areas:
It will be necessary to negotiate on how best to transfer this fund without attracting much taxation.
This will help in providing me and my family a residence permit / resident in your country after this money was transferred to his country ..
You will be responsible for advising us to invest this fund a viable venture in your country.
What you will pay a brief working visit (2 days) to meet me and my family face to face here in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, so that we can establish a personal contact with you to ensure a certain amount of trust between us .
We have in mind to reward you handsomely for your assistance.

We are willing to give you 30% of the total sum and 35% share of total investment to be made.
Do not hesitate to call my son TONY your line immediately you receive this message, to enable us proceed in Ernest, to complete this operation.
Make sure that nobody else knows about this money because it's just me, my son, and if the Evangelist Church where we worship who know about this money.
May God bless and help us.
Sincerely,
Mrs:Yvon massicotte.

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