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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: "From Joy" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ioebcw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 08:12:14 -0700
Subject: Re: Confirm receipt............ HTVWMUUOXT

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Good day sir/ma.   
     
I'm Joy Monday, 22 years old from ABIDJAN COTE D' IVOIRE the only child of late chief Monday, sir/ma my late father asked me to contact Mr. Williams
his friend whom lives in U.S.A if any thing happens to him but I have been writing him and he's not answering and i don't know what happened to him.
     
Please I saw your contact on my late  fathers contact box and i think you may be one of my late fathers friend, my late father's people are looking for me
because of the investment of my inheritance fund USD$9.5M (Nine million five hundred thousand united state dollars) from my late father  
who died mysteriously last year.  In my country if a man dies and he does not have a male child, his brothers shares his property leaving both the wife and
the daughters empty handed including the house they are living. This is the exact case with me as I am the only daughter of my father.
    
I lost my mother when I was barely a year old and my late father refused to re-marry another wife because he felt solely responsible
for my mother's death. When my mother's people found out that my father was responsible for my mother's death they poisoned my father.
     
Sir/ma I want you to help me leave my country and come over to your country to continue my study's where I stopped and start a new live with your family, please help me out.
Various times had discussions with the director of international remittance unit of the bank where my father deposited
the funds and I was assured that once, I have someone who would be willing to receive the funds on my behalf, they shall commence
all proceedings to effect the release and transfer of the funds into the person's designated account. Now, I wish you can signified
your interest to partner with me and transfer my inheritance fund into your nominated account for the purpose of investment
and to further have me come over to your country to continue with my studies. Thank you
    
I shall be giving you more information as soon as I hear back from you,
     
and you can get me with this number +22507178317 or ioebcw@gmail.com
 
 
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