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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: Epiphanie Gomel <epiphanie.gomel0123@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Epiphanie Gomel <epiphaniegomel0100@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:19:53 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From: epiphanie gomel


From: epiphanie gomel 

Abidjan cote d'ivoire 

West africa. 

Dearest, 

Permit
me to inform you of my desire of going into a relationship with you.i
am epiphanie gomel the only daughter of late chief and dr fredrick gomel
my father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant based in abidjan, the
economic capital of ivory coast before he was poisoned to death by his
business associates on one of their outings to discuss on a business
trip. When my mother died on the 21st october 1999, my father took me so
special because am motherless. Before the death of my father on 29th
november 2012 in a private hospital here in abidjan.he secretly called
me on his 

bedside and
told me that he has a sum of us$7,500,000 (seven million five hundred
thousand united states dollars) left in a suspence account in a prime
bank here in abidjan, that he used my name as the next of kin in
depositing the fund. He also explained to me of his wealth and the
business which amount to us$32.000.000 they are having at hand,that was
the reason he was killed by his business associates, that i should seek
for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where i will transfer
this money and use it for investment purpose especially in the area or
real estate management. I am honourably seeking your assistance in the
following ways. 

1) to help me to transfer this fund from the bank here 

To your account in your country. 

2) to serve as the guardian of this fund 

3) to make arrangement for me to come over to your 

Country to further my 

education since i want to go to pastoral school. 

Moreover,i
am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your
effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your
norminated account overseas.you made to see the success of this possible
transaction. Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards
assisting me as i believe that this transaction would be concluded
within seven ( 7) working days you 

Signify interest to assist me. God bless you for your understanding. 

Anticipating to hear from you soon.thanks and god bless you. 

Best regards. 

Epiphanie gomel

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