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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: Emmanuella Clement <emmanuellaclement207@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Emmanuella Clement <emmanuellaclement2017@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 01:58:36 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Hello


Hello my dearest,


Please do not be embarrassed to read this message because you are the intended recipient. I saw your email address through a directory and I contacted you because I urgently needed your assistance. My name is Mrs. Mrs. Emmanuella Clement. I am 57 years old woman and I am legally married to late Mr. Peter Clement. Me and my late husband where both citizens of Germany but we lived here in Ivory Coast West Africa for the past 28 years ago. My late husband worked with an oil drilling company as an expatriate here in Ivory Coast for many years before he died on a fatal car accident which killed him and his driver here in Ivory Coast. I and my late husband were both married without a single biological child of our own. I presently have a serious breast cancer sickness and I am writing this message with the help of a medical doctor here in the hospital in Ivory Coast.

When my late husband was alive, he deposited the sum of one million five hundreds thousands Euros (1.500.000.00 euro) with a bank here in Ivory Coast which he signed an agreement with the bank that the funds will be used for charity purposes such as; helping the motherless babies, supporting charity activities and helping the non privilege children to continue their education. My husband took this decision for this charity work because we have no child who will inherit the funds in the bank here and he was brought up by an orphanage center in Berlin-Germany because he has no family back in Germany.

I contacted you today because my doctor just informed me that my breast cancer sickness has gotten worst and they are going to carry out a serious cancer surgery on my heart by next week Thursday which I might not survive, If I die during my surgery next week, the bank here will embezzle the funds because I have no other relative to claim the money and I am unable to locate any of my late husband’s family in Germany. I want you to help me transfer the funds to your own personal bank account and after the transfer to your bank account; you will collect 30% (450,000.00 euro) of the total funds for your self as compensation and use the remaining 70% (1.50, 000.00 euro) to do the charity work in your country. 

Please reply me urgently if you are interested to help me in this transaction so that I will send you more details because I want the funds to be transferred before my upcoming surgery next week.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Emmanuella Clement

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