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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: "eunice love (via Google Forms)" <forms-shares-noreply@google.com>
Reply-To: euniceloveapa@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 11:53:46 +0000
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?TXkgQmVsb3ZlZCBvbmUgIOaIkeW/g+eIseeahE9ORQ==?=

Hello
My dear may this message find you with good heart.And may
this year be of good and blessing to you in all your doing.
please help me if you can and for GOD sake.please this is
not a lie,nor spam.but i need your kindly help.
Sorry I am handicap by being a deaf girl.Well let me start by
introducing my self .I am miss Eunice Akach whom just wrote you today
.
I am a deaf girl and the daughter of late dr and mrs Vincent Akach, my
father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant based in Abidjan. The economic
capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business
associates, on one of their outing to discuss on a business deal.
Well my mother died on the 21st October 2010 and was the day I became
deaf. My father took me so special because i am motherless. Before
the death of my father on 29th November 2013 in a private hospital
here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bedside and told me
that he has a sum of us nine million, united states dollars left in a
local bank here in Abidjan. he also explained to me that it was because
of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that i
should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where i
will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose.
(Such as real estate management and Transportation).
My dear i am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
to provide any new bank account where this money would be transferred
to .And you serve as the guardian to this fund. to make arrangement for
me to come over to your country to further my education and then invest
and secure a residential permit in your country.my dear i am willing to
offer you 30% of the total sum as compensation for your effort input
after the successful transfer of this fund to your nominated new bank
account overseas. Furthermore, you can
indicate your option towards assisting me, as i believe that this
transaction would be concluded within seven days you signify
interest to assist me.
please i know that this is not the best way or channel that i should
reach you ,but because of my handicap with problem of life.
please bear in mind that this is not a lie nor spam, but you are
helping me
for the love of GOD to human being.i mean no harm to you and family,
nor do i have any bad intention or any risk nor losses on you.all i am
asking is for you to help me and to know if i can treat my deaf hearing
problem and because i was not born deaf.
my dear i urgently needs your kind attention in confident.
Thanks and god bless
Miss Eunice .Akach






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