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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: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mrs_Traor=E9_Sylla_Bintou?= <mrsbintou19611@gmail.com>
Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mrs_Traor=E9_Sylla_Bintou?= <mrssyllabintou@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 23:55:32 +0900 (JST)
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Adoption_=28Mrs_Bintou_Sylla_Traor=E9=29?=


From Mrs. Bintou Sylla Traore

I am Mrs.
Bintou Sylla Traore, I was born on June 8, 1969. I am a widow and have a
15-year-old daughter. I am so happy to be writing this message because
it rejoices my heart if you can share my passion to get this project I
want to get started.

I want you to understand that my current
medical status will not allow me to move to make this project a reality,
which is why I need your help to make this project go through. My late
husband was a precious stone dealer, he buys from Ghana and Asia and I
joined him in business about 20 years ago and since then we have been
able to make lots of money.

The problem is that my husband is
really an orphan and we both grew up in the orphanage and we have no one
to help except my daughter who is 15 years old. Now, my daughter is 15
years old and I was diagnosed with a deadly syndrome and I also have
brain tumor as it is at the time, the doctor is saying that I only have
only a few months to live as to be realistic with you I I have to say a
month or so that's why I want you to do it for me as a charity job as
there is no one to deal with that money.

Now the fund worth four
million eight hundred thousand United States dollars is currently in a
bank. I asked you to do this because I want you to recover the money
from the bank and half the money should be used in setting up the
orphanage and other facilities to help less privilege because the other
half of the money should be used in the investment in your country.

Note
that this investment will be in your name, but my daughter must have
50% of this investment. Also, you will have to adopt my daughter as your
child; she must live with you until she is 25 years old and then you
can help her build her own life with her share of the investment.

Note
that when you accept this offer and accept to adopt my daughter as your
own child and take good care of it, I will introduce you to the bank as
a beneficiary to the account where the fund is and make you a signatory
to the account.

Answer me with a copy of your identity card if
you accept this offer and please do not forget that there is no one to
take care of my daughter so you must adopt her as your child and you
must create the infrastructure to meet A Needy and less privileged.

Remain blessed.

thank you
Mrs. Bintou Sylla Traore

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