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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: "Ms. Rose" <roseayoh@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: roseayoh225@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:28:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Hello, read My Message and Respond


Hello, read My Message and Respond
>From Rose Ayoh,
Venue 13 Rue 62nn
Abidjan Ivory coast
Telephone: +225 6764 3481.
E-mail: roseayoh275@yahoo.com
 
Greetings to you, with warm heart we offer our friendship; I hope this mail meets you in good time. However strange or surprising this contact might seem to you as we have not met personally, I humbly ask you to take due consideration of this importance and the immense benefit it will be to both of us. After careful consideration with my younger brother, we resolved to contact you for your most needed assistance in this manner. I duly apologize for infringing on your privacy, if this contact is not acceptable to you, as we make this proposal to you as a person of integrity. Being the child of our father, late Dr. Jean Ayoh, First and foremost I wish to introduce our self properly to you. My name is Ms. Rose Ayoh and my junior brother is Mr. Morah Ayoh from Ivory Coast (Cote d' Ivoire West Africa) I am 23 years of age and Morah is 19.
 
My father was limited liability Diamond and Gold merchant in Ivory Coast a very successful businessman and proficient politician in Ivory Coast before his untimely death. After his business trip to SOUTH AFRICA to negotiate an investment project he wanted in SOUTH AFRICA. A week after he came back from SOUTH AFRICA, he got an accident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a private hospital where he was admitted, I didn't know that my father was going to leave us after I had lost our mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew his going to die. I PRAY MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE AMEN) he disclosed to me that he deposited sum of $10,000,000.00 Dollars, (Ten Million US Dollar). The safety deposit, which is a trunk box, is stocked with hard currency (US Dollars) total amount $10,000,000.00 (Ten Million US Dollar),which was generated from cash payments from his business associates. He
also told me that the money was meant for his Investment, which he wanted to establish in SOUTH AFRICA. He directed me to his lawyer where he filed it and seeks guidance on how I could do with the deposit certificate and with the agreement bound with the Security Company and instructed me to seek for a reliable, experience and trust worthy business partner outside Africa who can help me invest the money for our life time investment there in abroad.
 
Now I have succeeded in locating the documents and the agreement bound with the Security Company which I also confirmed that the money was there with most honest and confidentiality. Now I am soliciting your assistance to help us claim this money out from Security Company and transfer it into to your safe account abroad so that we shall invest the money in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this money is our only hope in life. Though we believe that your assistance should based on mutuality, we are willing to offering you 25% 0f the funds and another 5% will be for any expenses that you make for the transaction process which make total 30% for your own. Waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction and give you the contact of the security company and the related documents, I await your immediate rely for more details.
 
Best regard
Ms. Rose.



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