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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: David Walter <wer@deercreekpta.org>
Reply-To: davidwalter666@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 20:54:41 -0400
Subject: Good day Sir/Madam



Good day Sir/Madam

First I will be very sorry if my English writing does not meet your
expectation?s, please try to understands my country do not speaks English
language, My Name is David Walter, I?m from Ivory Coast, in West
Africa, I Work?s
with one of the biggest well know bank in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire, Please I do
sent you this message because I need your emergency and urgent assistant for
transferring a very long abandoned deposited money in one of the bank
account at
my department owned by a deceased customer, the amount is sum of
US$9.5 Million,
the time when I converted it to US DOLLARS and after successful for
transferring
of this money , I will like the fund to be use for any Profitable good
business
investment in your country, I will reward?s you with a good reasonable
amount of
money, If you are fully interested in this deal, please try and reply back for
more details on the procedures for this deal on how it will be
executed here with
our bank without any delay or problem.

This deal is 100% risk free, legal, genuine, pure, transparent and legitimate,
your response will determine if we shall work together to achieve this goal or
not. And, your positive response shall lead to our success on this project, if
really you are honest and sincere to me, please do not stop, If you have any
question to ask on any area you do not understands, you are free to ask and I
will reply back to you with the answers in my next Email message or you can
contact me through my private direct telephone number: +22576107313

Please when your reply back to me, please include in this message, your full
Name, Mobile phone number, any home and office telephone numbers, city and
country of residence.

Best regards, and have a very nice day.

Mr David Walter

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