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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: iwah78@terra.com.mx
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:25:00 +0100
Subject: Good day .................From the son of late Dr John Martins

Dearest,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since I can not
be able to see you face to face, at first. being the SON of late Dr JOHN
Martins. from ZULU in republic of SOUTH AFRICA (S.A) I am Mr. Ken Martins
.And my father was a limited liability cocoa and Gold merchant in South-Africa.

Before his death after his business trip to Abidjan -Cote d'ivoire west-Africa
to negotiate on a cocoa business on 6th of February 2003 a week after he
came back from Abidjan , he was assassinated with my mother by unknown assassins
which my mother dead instantly but my father dead two week after in the
hospital, on that faithful afternoon I didn't know that my father is going
to leave me after I lost my lovely mother.

But before he gave up the ghost it was as if he knew he was going to die,
my lovely father ( may his soul rest in perfect peace ) he disclosed to
me that he deposited the sum of USD$4 ,000,000.00 million dollars(FOUR MILLION
DOLLARS) with a bank in Abidjan-Cote d'ivoire that the money was meant for
his cocoa business he wanted to invest in Abidjan-Cote d'ivoire . Though
according to my father he told me to take care of the money for the future
sake of me and my sister , so he instructed me to seek for a life time investment
in abroad .

As a result of this assassination we cannot stay in South-Africa now . I
have succeeded in locating and confirming the existence of the fund in Abidjan-Coted'ivoire
and also with most honest and confidentiality I am soliciting your assistance
to help me on how to transfer this money from the bank in Abidjan Cote d'ivoire
to your bank account abroad so that we will invest in a lucrative business
in your country you should understand that this fund is our only hope .

I am waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities
of this transaction.Although I and my sister jennifer have decided to give
you a 20% interest from the total sum of $4million . Please kingly contact
me on the above email address immediately for more details .

Thank you and God bless You

Best regards
Ken and sister

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