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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: "Barrister.Kouassi Suleman" <barr.kouassi@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 05:21:25 +0000
Subject: Please Advice.

Greetings ,

I am Hon.Kouassi Suleman, A personal attorney to An Engineer , I Hope
that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am
about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I
have the opportunity of transferring the left over funds belonging to
one of my client who bears your surname. This client of mine was a
companion to former Libyan President Muhammar Gaddafi and Gaddafi was
useing him to run transactions globally and the bottom line is that my
client was assassinated in Libyan. I am his personal attorney. My
purpose of contacting you is that my late client deposited funds
valued at (US$9.6million) with (150kg of Gold) with finance
institution before his death without an heir apparent, NEXT OF KIN,
ormbeneficiary. I will like to present you as the NEXT OF KIN to my
latemclient in order for you to lay claim to the aforementioned funds
and gold.

I solicit your cooperation and assistance. For this, I need your
urgent assistance in transferring the (US$9.6million) with (150kg of
Gold) to your account within 10 or 14 banking working days. This money
has been dormant for years in the finance institution without claim. I
want the finance institution to release the money to you as the
nearest person to our deceased customer I don't want the money to go
into government treasury as an abandoned fund. So this is the reason
why I am contacting you so that the finance institution can release
the money to you as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased customer.

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and
delete it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I
will give you full details on how the business will be executed and
also note that you will have 40% of the above mentioned sum while 60%
will be for me, if you agree to handle this business with me. I am
expecting your urgent respond immediately. please be advised that the
confidentiality of this transaction is non-negotiable.

Thanks and God bless you.

Respectfully,


Hon.Kouassi Suleman
#142 Rue du Ankanfu,Lome-Togo

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