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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: Ramatu Ibrahim <ramatu4luv_2006@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:04:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: FROM RAMATU IBRAHIM



From Ramatu Ibrahim.
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

Dear Beloved ,
compliment of the day to you and your family i hope all is well ,i just want to know if you are in good condition of health if so glory be to GOD.

Well Mysteries has gone in my life. Life has become restless for me in this western part of Africa . 29th September 2006,later in the night the murders come without a pity without a mercy they kill my father in front of me since is not easy to come acrros someone like you and a GODLY person i need in my life ,
..

My father was a wealthy merchant DAIMOND dealer .The trouble began early last year when my father's associates started suspecting that my father is not giving proper accounts of all the tons of daimond got local minners in the villages. This mistrust deepens between Jul-Aug 2006 when they discovered a very big some of diamond my father deposited in a security company here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire .

As a result of this discovery and the enviness of the Daimond ,he was killed by his associates.Before this, he revealed to me the reasons of his being hatred.He directed me where to get the documents of the said deposit, he told me that he enrolled my name as his next of kin for the deposit, He advised me that I should not stay in the country because his enemies might equally kill me to reap all his wealth hence my mother died five years ago .

He instructed me that if he dies, that I should look for a foreign partner who will help me to transfer the Diamond into the person's country and the person will help me to invest it in his or her country. My father finally died on 29th of September and since then I was out of school and went into hiding because of my father's associates. All the relevant documents of the Daimond worth $5.5 (five Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars) that was deposited in a security company are intact with me now.

My name is Ramatu Ibrahim.. I am 23yrs old and a student. Please I would require your urgent assistance so that I can move out from here before they kill me as they are tracing my hide out.I agreed to give you 20% of this money ,if you can help me bring out this daimond from the security company and transfer this box of daimond into your country for onward investment in your country.

Please contact me immediately with my E-mail address and include your telephone and Fax numbers in your response to enable me send you all necessary details as regards to the procedure of securing the fund out from the security company and transferring the fund to your end account.

Please be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free.
I'm waiting for your urgent reply

Best regards

Ramatu Ibrahim.



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