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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: murraybeverly001@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 00:17:32 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=20=20Mrs=20=20Kone?=

Hello ,

My name is Madam Murray Beverly Kone.A complete citizen of the Philippine,widow
to the late former minister of finance in Ivory Coast who was a victim of
the terrorist attack against the United State of America on the 9/11 2001
that crashed at the World Trade Centre in New York .

I inherited a total sum of $10 million dollars from my late husband. this
money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a security
and finance company in Ivory Coast under a secret arrangement as a family
treasure. This mean's that the security company does not know the content
of this box that was deposited with them.

My main purpose of sending your this mail is because of the way I found
you and perhaps trustworthy to give this priority of shipping this box of
money to any address that you think is very secure and save in place with
your percentage of which we shall chat on soon. There is need for urgent
action because I'm paying $50 dollars per day as a demurrage to the security
company for keeping this consignment.

I give thank's immensely for the co-operation as I look forward to hear
from you soonest.


Best Regard,

Madam Murray Beverly Kone





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