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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: rose coleman <rosmeg7@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: rom2_24saline@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:00:53 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: REAL AFFAIRE


From Mrs Coleman Rosemary
II plateaux Abidjan
Cote d'Ivoire


I am Mrs COLEMAN ROSEMARY, from Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa. I am married to late Mr .Collins COLEMAN from Kuwait who worked with Kuwait Embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2001. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days

Before his death we were both born again Christians. Since his death I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home. When my late husband was alive, he deposited the sum of $12.5 Million with a Security Company in Cote d’ lvoire. Presently this money is still in the vault of the Security Company in Cote D lvoire although, the security company does not know the real content of the box because my late husband registered it as AFRICAN ARTIFICES for sale abroad.

Recently, my Doctor diagnosed me and found out that I have a breast cancer problem. Having known my condition, I underwent some local treatments in the military hospital here who have referred me to go to abroad for a specialist treatment.. That is why I am contacting you to help me retrieve this consignment to your country and help me relocate to your country for a special treatment. You will provide a letter of invitation to me and my younger cousin who has since stood by me throughout this period so that she can still be by my side to help me and she will as well continue her studies there in your country..


The Bible made us to understand that “ Blessed is the hand that giveth". l took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and are not even good at all because they never in anyway supported our marriage and since my husband died, they have been monitoring to see if my husband left some assets somewhere so that they will come and claim it and I don't want my husband's efforts to be used by unbelievers. I don't want a situation whereby this money will be used unjustly.

And after the retrieval of this heritage from the security company, when we arrive in your country, you will take me to the best hospital and then we will invest our own share of the money in a business that can be yielding us money daily. I am prepared to offer you 20% of this sum for the effort that you will put the successful end of this transaction.

For this transaction to reach at it’s successful peak, please send me your telephone and your full contacts so that I will submit them to the security company for them to write you and let you know how they can ship the consignment to you.


Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I
Stated herein and that you are not going to reveal this transaction to any third party in order to save my life and the heritage too.
Hoping to receive your response, thanks and Remain blessed in the Lord.

l remain yours sister in Christ.
Mrs COLEMAN ROSEMARY





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