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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: koaussi5 <koaussi5@yeah.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 20:32:14 +0800 (CST)
Subject: From Kelvin Koaussi

From Kelvin Koaussi
Avenue 14,Rue 12.
Triechville
Abidjan Cote divoire.
Alternative Email: kelvinkoaussi@yahoo.fr

Dear beloved one.
It's a pleasure to write you this letter. How are you and your family today?
Firstly,I'm Mr Kelvin Koaussi 19 years old and the only son of Dr.and Mrs. Williams Koaussi the former General Director
of the Ivorian Gold Mining Cooperation who all died on board the Bukina faso-Algerian plane crash dated July 26, 2014 at 7:40 PM killing 118 passangers and crew members on board on his way to Algeria on a business trip See website:http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-finds-second-black-box-air-algerie-130239849.html;_ylt=A9mSs2qvwhZU0HsAFcpjAQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTE0MDNrNmU1BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNARjb2xvA2lyMgR2dGlkA01TWUZSMTFfMQ--,hope to are aware of the Bukina-faso-Algerian plane crash.May thier sole and the sole of all the faithful departed rest in perfect peace. Amen

Although I was too shocked with what happened at that time but Thanks to God Almighty for giving me the courage to enduare and live till today. since after the death of my beloved parents life has never been the same for I have to drop out of the university because of lack of sponsor or help but hanks to God Almighty for this revelation in the next paragragh.

Now after the untimely death of my beloved parents in that planecrash,as I was cleaning my late father's room last week I discovered in a secret file in his room a fund deposit certificate indicating that he made a WILL of 4.500.000US$ in my name as the only son of the family with a bank in Abidjan,cote d'ivoire before his untimely death in that planecrash,so after proper verifications with the bank I discovered that everything is intact and in placed as deposited and the instructions in the deposit agreement oblige me to source for someone reliable and trustworthy who can stand as my late father's foreign partner or co-beneficiary of the deposit before the money can be release to me, so this is my reason for contacting you for this assistance to stand and help me transfer this money into your account in your country as my late father's foreign partner and co-beneficiary of the deposit.

Please, to be franck with you, another reason for contacting you for this assistance is that my life is in great
danger here in my Country since the death of my parents because the brothers of my late father are after my life and want to kill me so as to inherite my late fathers properties and could you imagine that our house was attacked by unknown gun men and my little sister was killed but luckily I escaped as the attackers wanted to kill me as the only son of the family and take away my late fathers properties that rightly belongs to me and as of now I'm the only surviving member of my family after all this problems so that's why I want you to help me out of this Country so that I can resettle my life and live.

Sir,remember you will be my sole confidant in any business venture that you might decide to invest this money into while
I futher my studies in your Country,Please help me out for this situation and save my life

Please if you can be of help to me then all I need from you is your sincerity and confidentiality in this matter.

I hope to hear from you as soon as posible so that we can know what next to do.

Yours Sincerily.
Kelvin Koaussi.

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