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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:
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- This email message is a "dying widow" scam.
Fraud email example:
From: AT&T Costumer Service <gift_youngi@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 19:37:44 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Mrs Gift Young
Greeting to you in the name of our God almighty, I am the above named person from cote d'ivoire I am married to Mr.Young Toure who is an Oil Consultant/ Contractor with the Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire National Petrolum Corpration Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2004,We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again Christian and we worship in glourios chapel church of God. Since his death I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the words is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $8.5 Million (Eight million five hundred thousand U.S.dollars)in a bank in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire Presently,the fund is still with the bank. Recently, my Doctor Dr.Mrs Lina diabate told me that i have serious sickness which is cancer problem. The one that disturbs me most is my stroke Mrs Gift Young
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