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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: "Ms.Rebeca" <john@bioinvest.com>
Reply-To: freemai@barid.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 01:52:09 -0600
Subject: Re: To Your Attention Pls.



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Hello Beloved Friend,

My greetings to you and your Family

permit to inform you of my desire of business relationship with you. I
have to believe you are reputable and responsible and trustworthy person
I can do business with the little information I am about you during my
search for a partner and the matter of trust I must not hesitate to
confide in you for this simple and sincere proposition.

I am Miss.Rebecca Kurubos from Douekue, Cote D'Ivoire, the only daughter
of late Col.Dr Kurubos. My late father was serving colonel before he was
assassinated in service during the political crises in my country.
Leaving me and my mother who is my reason for contacting you. Now my
mother is currently diagnosed with Leukemia being a Cancer of the Blood,
in one missionary hospital praying for her recovery. From medical
report, she says she can only survive if urgent medical surgery is
carried out on her.

For this reason, I decided to seek for your assistance and reveal you to
my heritance from my late father. Before the death of my father he told
me he has a sum of US $ 5.5,000,000 (five million, five hundred united
states dollars) kept in a financial firm, here in cote d'ivoire in my
name

Dear, in the capacity of the next cinemas and with all the documents in
my hand now, I am contacting you with a sence of humanity that you will
give it a sympathetic and mutual consideration.

I am honestly seeking your assistance in the following ways.

(1) To serve as a guardian of this fund to assist me visit the bank here
to retrive the money.

(2) To make arrangement for me and my mother to come over to your
country, and source for abetter hospital for my mother treatment

(3) To provide good investment plans for the fund and to manage the fund


furthermore, you can Indicate your option towards assisting me as I
believe that this transaction would be concluded within a stipulated
period of time you signify your interest to assist me.

My mother must not die. please help me save her life.

Anticipating hearing from you immediately.

Thanks and God bless.
Best Regards.
Miss.Rebecca Kurubos

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