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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:
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: Aisha Halima <aishahalima4@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:46:11 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: I need your urgent response please
Good day,
My name is Aisha Alima the daughter of late Mr Josephat Alima. My father was an Ivorian politician who served as the
minister of the interior and chief of staff and secretary general for the ousted former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo
during the 2002–2011 Ivorian political crisis/civil war and he was also a top ally of the ousted former president Laurent
Gbagbo.
It is very sad to say that my father died on Tuesday April 12 2011 at PISAM hospital after he was brutally beating up and
finally shut in his mouth at the presidential residence by armed rebels/republican forces of the Ivory Coast (FRCI) loyal to
Alassane Dramane Ouattara who is now the president of my country Ivory Coast .
Before the death of my father in PISAM hospital in Cocody Abidjan, he told me of the money he has deposited in a bank valued
at Six Million Five hundred thousand Us dollars only ($6,500,000.00 ) which he deposited with my name as the sole heir
apparent to the deposited fund. Now I am back in Ivory Coast and I have confirmed the existence of the money in the bank and
all the documentary evidence covering the money are intact with me.
Please I need your kind and urgent assistance to transfer and invest this money in your country and also come to your country
to continue my educational carrier.
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Thank you and God bless you.
Yours affectionately
Miss Aisha Alima
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