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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: "Monday Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mondayw12@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:38:33 +0200
Subject: Hi


My Dear,

Our humble greeting! I know that this mail might be a surprise to you. Please permit us to introduce ourselves to you, my name is monday williams and my sister name is marina. We are the children of late Dr.Johnson A. williams from Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire, (Ivory Coast).Our late father was the formal General Manager of Cocoa Merchant Industry in Abidjan, he was among the rich agriculturist murdered and killed in cold blood by the agent of the ruling government of President Laurent Gbagbo during the political crisis / war because of his support and sympathy for opposition party (Rassemblement Des Républicains) de Côtes d'Ivoire (RDR). I hope that you are aware of the civil war that took place in our country Abidjan, Côtes d' Ivoire,

We would like to know you and discuss investment issue with you, I wish to let you know that we will be interested to invest in your company under your managements. Nevertheless, We have inherited Fund US$3.5 Million (Three Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollar) which our late father deposited in one of the investment banks here in Abidjan, Cotes d 'Ivoire before he died. Right now, we are under the Refugee Camp here in Abidjan because our late father wicked brothers wants to kill us and claim this money in the bank, so we ran away with the deposit documents.Please we needed your urgent assistance for the transfer of this money to your country for investment in your Company under your management. You will also help us to come over to your country to continue our education because our education stopped due to the sudden death of our Father and our mother died after a brief illness that lasted only two days.

Many thanks if you can be able to help us solve this problem we found ourselves, we would compensate you with 25% of the total money after you have helped us transfer the money successfully into your bank account. Please contact me As soon as I receive your response, I will give you more details please send your reply to this my private

Thanks and best regards.
Yours Sincerely
monday williams

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