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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: Alexis <alexisbo@inbox.lv>
Reply-To: alexisbou@inbox.lv
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:04:41 +0000
Subject: hello



--
Hi

Please I Decided to Contact you for real plights something else and I do
want you to assume that my message was sent without personal consigns
but
permit me to express certain personal issue as I do not know if I might
receive helps from you, the subject might appear so sudden but consider
this as a wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility.

I lost my Dad back in the middle of Two year ago 2013... I am alone
presently, my Dad was a formal district leader to our community more
than
twenty years before i was born, I was the son. as my mother was no
longer with my Dad when i was just 7yhrs, due to her divorced my Mum did
never knew my Father's fortunes and other aspects of my Dad's life,
though
I also lost my Mum on the 28th October 2005

Unfortunately, my father willed some amount of money which was in a
vault,
the money were annually paid to my father's account from various
communities, there were companies that usually cooperate by making
certain
payment to local communities which was under my father's leadership as
means of helping youths who might have in a way lacked employments,
among
these companies was Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Chevron,
Mobil and Agip coperation Plc.

Of course, Most of the saving which my father wills to me were from
these
annual revenues for compensation of youths and community developments
under
my father's leadership, so the siad wills were profits and direct saving
by
my father.

Right-now, i urgently need your assistance because of some problems that
recently took place in my family, this was between my father's relatives
and some others individuals who are making our family to be places
inabittable a lot of argument for about two months now, due to this i
must
confess that I'd like to relocate to your country which I yearn to stays
probably with yours cooperation, of course this was my actual plights of
reaching you with this message.

Of course, there was a recent problem that took place and it was a heavy
arguments to some matters... like my father's formal saw mill, land
plots,
and one housing estate, the problems was that there exist no single
writings by My Dad respecting these properties as to whom should
inherited
them from the family.

As you can see I need your assistance as I wanted immediate relocation
and
a transfer's of the said vault, the total amount at bank side was four
million Dollars, I believed Great times has indeed made this possible, i
want to leave here Please do reply back

Thanks Alexis Bouazo

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