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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: Faith Adelh <brigitte_u._werner-lechner@t-online.de>
Reply-To: "adelhf334@gmail.com" <adelhf334@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 10:54:48 +0100 (MET)
Subject: From Faith Adelh




From Faith Adelh

Dear nice meeting you, i decide to contact you because i need your urgent
help. First and foremost, my name is Faith Adelh, I am presently in Cote
D' Ivoire since the death of my late father who is Ivorian, while my mother
is from Toulouse France, both of them Married when my father was residing
in Toulouse France though, the marriage did not last long because my mother
died when i was only 5 years old.

My father was a successful and wealthy business man who deals on
Importation of Aluminum and Iron Steel Company here in the city of Abidjan
Cote D' Ivoire before his death on 30th August 2014 as result of diabetes.
Now his business has been claimed by his brothers, they don't even care
about me as the daughter, but this does not bother me because my father
told me in the hospital before he died that he deposited sum of money worth
$7,500,000.00 (Seven million, five hundred thousand American dollars) in a
bank, which made me his next of kin who shall inherit the money in future.
He also warned me to relocate out of this country Cote D' Ivoire because,
his brothers are evil and greedy, and they can hurt me because of this
money.

My Dear, the reason for contacting you today is to ask for your help to
stand behind me as my foreign partner to claim this money from the bank and
transfer it to your account so that i will relocate over to your country
and settle down in your country and you will also help me to invest that
money wisely in a good venture so i can have a great future.

My dear, after the transfer of the money to your account i promise to give
you 20% of the total money for all your effort in helping me out of this
condition. Please reply me back so i can give you more details about this
fund in the bank.

God blessing be upon you for helping me.
Thank and have a nice day.
Faith




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