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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: adeline alphonse <adelinealphonse73@gmail.com>
Reply-To: adelinealphonse48@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 17:56:57 +0430
Subject: I want you to be my business partnership.?

Greetings in the name of Jesus ,

I am an Orphan,my name is Miss.Adeline Alphonse the only child to
late Mr.Konan Alphonse and my mother died when I was 5years old of
which I could not know whom my mother was and according to my father
he told me that my mother died in a little sickness that hited her
before he could rush her to hospital she died and from there my father
took me so special to the extend my father could not re-marry again
due to the love he has on me as his only child.

However my father was into cocoa marchant export and as well he was
into pilitice in the party to ex-president (laurent gbagbo) and it
happened that Alassane Ouattara , During the election 2011 his
military’S Shurt my father in the sense that my father was suporting
Laurant Gbabo and that was how the case gone before they catch Laurant
Gbabo which enable Alassane Ouattara to enter into power as a
president.And for that reason I hate Alassane Ouattara and I decided
that I will not be alife to leave in that coutry where Alassane
Ouattara is the president.but before my father was killed he told me
that he made a deposit of $9.5 million united states dollars in a bank
in Togo which he directed me to his private lawyer who was his
childhood friend.

As they killed my father they seized everything he has,God so kind my
father’s lawyer after the political war crisis that happened in my
country Cote D’ Ivoire the lawyer called me and told me that my
father has sum of $9.5million deposited in a bank in Togo that he was
with him when he made the deposit that Laurant Gbabo send him to buy
some war material’s then he breached in Togo to deposited this money
which he handed me over the deposit certificate to clear that it is
the truth,When i collected the deposit certificate i have to rushed to
the bank to confirm and when i saw that everything was real i now
decided not to go back to our countr any longer.

Therefore I will like you to help me to get this money out from the
bank becauce the bank Manager told me that told them that encase if he
is no more that i been his only child will be having access in the
money when i reach age of 28years old or if i could allow to reach up
to that age that i has every right to present a foreigner to stand as
my guardian to claim the money on mu behalf,this is the reason why i
am contacting you to assist me to claim this money hence the bank is
not giving any interest from the total sum.

Please if you are honest and you wouldn’t like to use the advantage as
you know that i am an orphan that has nobody to cheat on me, I shall
give you 10% from the total sum as your compersation,as well you help
me to invest the money in a profitable business ventures while i have
to contuine my education.

Expectring to read from you for more clearification.
Miss.Adeline Alphonse.

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