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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: Fabien Barou <fabien.barou@onet.eu>
Reply-To: Fabien Barou <fabien_barou10@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 01:49:15 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FROM DR.FABIEN BAROU.


ECOWAS COMPENSATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH GOVERNMENT OF COTE D’IVOIRE/IVORY COAST.
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER,
REPUBLIC OF COTE D’IVOIRE/IVORY COAST.

ATTENTION;

You may not understand why this mail came to you. It is in regards to a meeting had recently with the ECOWAS(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES), base on Agreement with the UNITED NATIONS and the WORLD BANK to help and make the world a better place for all with the sole aim of abolishing poverty.

The ECOWAS have passed a mandate to our President,Alassane Ouattara to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to Foreigners and Compensate all them that have lost their hard earned money to scammers here in our country COTE D’IVOIRE/IVORY COAST.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world as the ECOWAS and our GOVERNMENT have agreed to compensate each of them with the sum of US$950,000 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United State Dollars).

This includes every foreign contractors that have not received their contract sum,and people that had unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government policies.

Your name and email address is in the list submitted to me by our Monitoring Teams as one of the people that had unfinished transaction here in our country COTE D’IVOIRE/IVORY COAST that failed due to Government policies and this is why I am contacting you.

You are to get back to me so that the Prime Minister will transfer your Compensatation funds the sum of US$950,000 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United State Dollars) to you into your bank account which you will fill in the form below and return to me.

Your full name..........................
Address.................................
Private telephone number..................
Email address.......................

Bank name..........................
Address.............................
Telephone number..............
Fax number........................
Account name....................
Account number....................
Swift code............................

FINALLY,due to that the transfer will be processed,you will return the form to me with the sum of US$4,000.00(Four Thousand United States Dollars) to process the transfer and then transfer the funds to you into the bank account.

Below is the information which you will use to pay the fee via western union or moneygram and send the copy to me so that everything will be concluded.

Receiver' name;.......... DUKE ROGERS
Country...............;...REPUBLIC OF COTE D’IVOIRE/IVORY COAST
Amount;...................US$4,000.00
Test question;............WHITE
Answer....................  BLUE

Thanks.

DR.FABIEN BAROU.
SENIOR SECRETARY TO THE PRIME MINISTER,
REPUBLIC OF COTE D’IVOIRE/IVORY COAST.

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