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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: eleonildocouto <eleonildocouto@uol.com.br>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 06:16:25 -0300
Subject: Rubecca Bamba


Her picture is annex



De: eleonildocouto@uol.com.br
Enviada: Sábado, 11 de Abril de 2015 06:04
Para: eleonildocouto@uol.com.br
Assunto: rubecca bamba






De: rubecca.bamba@yahoo.com
Enviada:  5 de Fevereiro 2015 02:24
Para: eleonildocouto@uol.com.br
Assunto: rubecca bamba

From Miss rubecca bamba
Dearest One,

Good day and how do you do? I hope fine.

I am very happy to receive your message. Thank you for honest sincere
to help me which I do not know how to thank you. I am contacting you
from Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire , West Africa , Cote D’Ivoire is a small
Christian and island colonized by French colony.

I speak English and French fluently. I am 20 years old not married. I
dropped my education after the death of my parents and which I would
like to continue in your country upon my arrival.

However, as I explained in my proposal, the fund is presently kept in
a consignment deposited in a private Storage Firm here in Abidjan Cote
D’Ivoire . We definitely need to retrieve the consignment and transfer
the fund to your nominated account or any account you open in respect
of this transaction.

For you to help me we have two available options that will enable you
to help me and you have to chose one of it.

1. You have to come down here so both of us will go and retrieve the
consignment at the Storage Firm where it was deposited and transfer
the fund to your account and then go back same time to your country
but is not advisable to ask you to come here of Security reasons as we
are just coming of from civil war.

2.The Storage Firm can also ship the consignment to you in your
country through there Diplomatic Immunity means of delivering with a
very good mutual agreement if you cannot be able to come here.

It will please me for you come down here so that we will see face to
face and conclude this transaction with storage firm but as I said is
because of trust and also for you to witness the consignment in the
Storage Firm before you help me to retrieve it but if you give me the
trust and proceed with the Storage Firm to deliver the consignment to
you in your country and I believe is also same thing when you come
here.

I agreed to give you 15% of the total fund for any assistance you
renders in this affair and also map out another 3% for any expense you
might made as a result of telephone bills or your travelling expense
down here, etc.

But, the most important thing is, I would like to know more about your
business potentials. In a business of this nature, you will always
bear in mind that , the fact that, both of us have not met nor knew
ourselves before, will make things a bit difficult for us to work as
one mind and body. I am seriously disturbed about this because it may
make mutual understanding between two of us to be difficult.

But we can trust ourselves since we are total stranger to each other,
we can cooperate effectively, I have the confidence to release the
fund to you.

Without knowing more about, I will need assurance from you that you
will only do as both of us has agreed to do, that you will NOT/NEVER
betray me in this endeavour, and help me in
getting me a good school for the continuity of my educational career
which was disrupted by the sudden death of my parents .

I am about to release a huge sum to you and you must understand there
is need for you to send me some assurances; this is why I need your
photo or formal identity too. However, I send you mine.

Please tell m more about yourself including your contact details,
Your Full name...........
Your address............
fax number .........
your personal mobile line...
Your Age.....
Nationality...........

Finally, is rest assured that all processes involved for the
actualization of this matter must be legal and transparent and I shall
send you more information regards to this transaction as we proceed!

I wait to hear from you soonest
yours sincerely

rubecca bamba
 

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