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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: Roseline Nolann <roselinenolann@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Roseline Nolann <roselinenolaa@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 17:33:27 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Hello Dear


Hello Dear,

Hope this mail meets you well, please permit me to introduce my self to you, My name is Miss Roseline Nolann daughter to Late Dr. Stephane Nolann from Ivory Coast. Who was a famous cocoa merchant based here in Abidjan the Economic capital of Ivory Coast.


Please I humbly seek for your assistance, to help me to transfer the sum of  ( $7.500, 000.00 USD ) that I inherited from my late father Dr. Stephane Nolann to your bank account so that we should invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life. Before his death he told me that he used my name as his beloved daughter as the next of kin in depositing the fund and he advised me to seek for a trust worthy person abroad who will help me invest and manage this money for me until I am capable to handle it.

I seek your assistance in the follwing ways:

(1) To provide a bank account where this money can be transfered into.
(2.) To serve as a guardian of this fund.
(3.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your country after the successful transfering of this money into your account, to come and further my education.
(4) To help invest this money in a profitable business since I am only 22yrs of age and do not know about business.

The worst part of it is that my uncle is trying to kill me over this money because I refused to hand him over the documents covering this money after he succeeded killing my father. He has sold all my father’s landed properties including his cars which rightful belong to me and now he want me to hand over the banking documents of my father in my possesion which I refused. Now he said that he will have this money by all means even if it means killing me like they did to my father, so because of this I ran away were he can not see me.

I am willing to offer you 40% of the total fund as a mode of compensation after the transfer for your time and effort. All the necessary documents concerning this fund are intact with me. I will appreciate it if you respond to me as soon as you received my e-mail so that we can discuss further details of how to proceed concerning this fund. I will send you my photos in my next mail so that you will see and know who I am. Any feedback you can give me on this would be gratefully appreciated.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours,
Faithfully.
Miss Roseline Nolann.

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