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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: keita ibra <keita_ibra@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:36:12 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM MR IBRAHIM KEITA


FROM MR IBRAHIM KEITA
Abidjan Cote D'iviore

ATTN :Dear

Compliments of the season l am Mr Ibrahim Keita the first son of EL- Mustafa Keita who was the special adviser to the former president of Guinea Bissau who was short dead on 3 / 12 / 2003 by one of the rebels in Guinea l got your contact from My father daily l decided to contact you for this help .

Before the death of my father he sent a letter to us that we should go to Ivory coast to one security company that he keep one metal trunk box with them that containing ($8.5m eight million five hundred thousand US DOLLARS) he instructed that we should make proper use of it I' am now in Ivory coast with my mother and my junior sister.

why i am contacting you now is because of were I got your contact please l' am sending this message for your help and to ask if you could assist us in opening an off- shore bank account and for you to help us in investing of this money in areas such as real estate and stock market or any other venture you consider to be good For now l am not going to offer you any percentage until l hear from you today so that we can discuss how much is going to be your service charge and how you will be receiving yearly after investing the money also for me to know what will be position in the company that we are going to establish Thanks for your kind understanding l will be waiting for your call today .

Best regards
MR IBRAHIM KEITA
For the family
Tell: +2250708-6401



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