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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: "MICHEL GBAGBO" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <michelgbagbo42@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:12:11 +0800
Subject: PLEASE CAN YOU HANDLE THIS KIND OF TRANSACTION FOR ME.

Sir/Madam,

Please carefully read.

Sorry for the inconveniences it might occur to you, maybe if you¡¯re not interested in this my proposal I will be offering to you now, and again also I will be very sorry if my English writings do not meet your expectation¡¯s, please try to understands my country is officially a French speaking country, but I have to use English language for writing you in the way I can, because it¡¯s the world general business language which can simply understand in anywhere in the world, well I am the son of the former president of Cote D'Ivoire (ivory coast) in west Africa Mr. Laurent Gbagbo.

I have acquired a lot of most valuable treasure from my father when he was in power, such as many raw gold bars and a total cash sum of three hundred million united state dollars deposited in a security volt here in my country but it was declared as family treasure to the security volt, which no one knows even my family members except my father and me, but I have to relocate the gold bars and the whole of the amount of the money to outside Africa for security purposes, for now I believed it is no longer safe in Africa continent.

So I am looking for very trustworthy person or partner from one of this countries, European countries, USA, Canada, Asia countries, Australia, japan and New Zealand, who will help me for relocating the gold bars and the fund to their country and after some time I will relocate to his or her country for business partnership in any of the lucrative business you may know well.

So please do get back to me as soon as possible and to indicate your interest on this very transaction, so that I will send you more information details about this very transaction before we can move further so kindly get back to me as soon as possible indicating your wiliness to help me by telling me more about you and your company or organization your handling for now.

Please take note:
You should contact me if you can accept the procedures.
You have to state you will accept the procedures.
If you don¡¯t abide, I will just send your message to trash box. I don¡¯t have time to respond to tens of joker brokers and time wasters. I only respond to a real serious partner¡¯s and mandates.

Have a very nice day.

Yours sincerely,

Michel Gbagbo

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