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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: Edner Seydou Elimane <edner2215@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 00:17:08 +0000
Subject: please help me out.


DearestI am more than happy in gething intoch with your contact today, How are you today hope all is well and fine? Mine is a little bit cold over here in Dakar Senegal. I'm from ivory-coast, But due to the war in my country that cost the dead of my father and my mother which made me to stay here as a refugee. My condition here is terrible Its just like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace i will come out from here soon. I don't have any relatives now whom i can go to all our relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person i have now is (Rev Father Mathew Henry). who is the pastor of the ( The kings Churches) here in the camp, He has been very nice to me since i came here but i am not living with him rather I'm leaving in the women hostel (in the camp) because here they have two hostels one for the men the other for women. The Pastor's Tel number is (+221 782 057 194) if you call please tell him that you want to speak with me( edner seydou elimane) he will send for me in the hostel, because of my condition here i don't have any right or privileged to any thing being it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country. I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place. Please listen to this, I have my late father's statement of account and death certificate (as his next of kin) here with me which i will send to you later, Because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading bank in United kingdom which he used my name as the next of kin, The amount in question is $7.5m (Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) So what i need from church is to see that this money is transferred to a good account and also to make an arrangement on how i will come over and stay with the church and continue my life and education. for me to choose the church is what i knew they must ask and i think it is a good question. I have two reasons for choosing the church, i choose the church because it is the will of God. And i believe knowing god will bring hope back again to my life. My choosing church does not mean i do not have anybody from Africa. I have two uncles that is my late father's junior brothers whom i think are suppose to be taking care of me but they do not care, All they did was to sell one of my late father's houses and company to one Mr Olson Steven from united states and enjoy the money with their wives. I wanted to tell Olson about it but should my uncles know of the money they can kill me, So as to eat the money, It was as if my father saw their deed because he told the implication of having a big money in Africa and that was the reason while he made the deposit in Scotland. and i also believe that it is the will of God that the church can call me with the reverend office phone line, My favorite language is English but our official language is French, I speak English very fluently because i attended an American and English speaking private school in my country for almost all my school, please try to call me as i requested so that we can hear each other voices, I have a lot to tell you, I will be thinking about it so much as i will be waiting to hear from you soonest,Have a very wonderful day,please i want the church to vollentere sombody that will lead me through becouse of the expenses involved and let the church give me half of the money and use the other for charity purpose.i am waiting for the reply tomorrow becouse i need it urgent.Yours Edner.

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