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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: Eki Magra <eki.magra215@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Eki Magra <e.magra2015@outlook.fr>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:24:24 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Re.Waiting


My Dear,


I
do recognize the surprise this letter will bring to you, most especially
as it comes from a stranger. I am Mrs. Eki Magra. We are from Ivory
Coast. I am married to Mr. Adams Magra who was a wealthy cocoa
merchant in Ivory Coast for years before he died in the year  2010.We
were married for 11 years years without a child. He died after a brief
illness that lasted for only one week.


Since his death I decided not to remarry because of my bad stage of health, When my Husband ws alive he deposited the sum of Four million Eight hundred thousand United State Dollars. ($4.800,000USD) in one of the leading bank here in Ivory Coast . My doctor told me on Monday last week that I should start looking for whom to will my wealth due to my Cancer and Stroke sickness, he made it clear to me that he is not going to guarantee my life in this surgery.

I will like to hand you over this fund and my properties as a donation to help the Orphanage and Widows and also disability children who can not afford their daily bread and living expenses to help propagating the word of God as I cant invest it here in Ivory Coast due to recent bloody political crisis, I want to hand over this fund to you as it was my vow to establish charity project before I leave the world. I took this decision because I don't
have any Child that will inherit this fund, and my husband relatives have seized all his investments due to that I don't have a Child.

as soon as you response to this message I will inform the bank for immediate transfer of this fund to your personal bank account for this project, I will offer you 20 percent of the total fund for any expenses that may occur during this charity work, and I want you to always pray for my up coming surgery,


Yours Sister,

Mrs Eki Magra.

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