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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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Fraud email example:

From: Lt G KENOSE BARRY PHILLIPE <g.kenose@eezi-media.com>
Reply-To: acddc00@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 07:56:41 +0000
Subject: 1!.Compliment of the season`.'

Lieutenant General KENOSE BARRY PHILLIPE,
Office of the National Security Advisor General/Deputy Chief of Mission,

GET BACK TO ME AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVINIENCE

Hello Dear,
I am Lieutenant General KENOSE BARRY PHILLIPE, the National Security
Advisor General and Deputy Chief of Mission, The Republic of Ivory
Coast. I decided to contact you because of the prevailing financial
security report reaching my office and the intense frustrating nature of
inheritance payment policy here. As part of my job in liaison with the
National Ware House, Director General of Customs is the safe keep of all
seized and abandoned foreign consignments/liquid assets at the orders of
the Government.

During the course of my duty, I found an abandoned consignment that has
been lying here because of non-payment of customs clearance charges. On
further enquiries I discovered that the documents contained your name as
the beneficiary, the total amount being indicated is US$6,460,000 (Six
Million, Four Hundred and Sixty Thousand United States Dollars) and that
it was an inheritance payment due to you. You need to claim this fund
within the next 14days, or it will be seized and moved to the government
federated account as abandoned money. This is why I choose to come in by
contacting you.
I want to assist you to receive this fund because I discovered that you
have made several attempts in the past to collect this payment and in
all these processes you spent lots of money but all failed woefully.

In order to help you, your payment will be released to you by Direct
Cash Deposit Service (DCDS) through one of the reputable and well
regulated local banks here for onward direct remittance to your bank
account in your country. This fund that we plan to use for your payment
was brought to us from United States; it was meant for our Local
AFEM/FOREX market, but since the money was not used, I will use my
position as the National Security Advisor General/Deputy Chief of
Mission to the President to enable this payment to you. This payment
arrangement by direct cash deposit will require you to open a non
resident and secure online deposit account with the local bank here
which we shall use for this transaction.

This arrangement is the best method for you to receive your payment
without any hitch or obstructions because your payment by Direct Cash
Deposit Service will be guaranteed. Also, it will not require you to
provide any clearance documents, as we have our agents who are well
informed and who knows how to go about it considering the strict
financial regulations. We shall designate one of them to you, he is the
Defense Attache/Agent--COL Stefan Emilio, and he will work with you for
a successful release of this payment to you without disappointment. With
the directed agent, your payment will be very fast and easy, all you
will need to do is to open a non resident deposit account with the bank
that I shall recommend to you and once that is done, I will use my
connections to arrange the delivery and deposit of the fund into your
newly opened account.

After the fund has been lodged into your newly opened account, the bank
will contact you directly and give you the financial breakdown of your
account and statement. They will also have your Automated Transfer
Access Code activated which will enable you to start making transfers by
yourself to any account of your choice. All online transfers from your
account will take about 72hrs (3 banking business days) to reflect at
its directed bank account.
To avoid standing risk of loosing this fund to the government, you
should treat this letter with utmost urgency. Therefore, I need your
urgent reply.
Sincerely,

Lieutenant General Kenose Barry Phillipe,
Office of the National Security Advisor General/Deputy Chief of Mission,
The Republic of Ivory Coast

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