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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: charlesanthony84@hotmail.fr
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:42:30 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: FROM CHARLES ANTHONY

FROM CHARLES ANTHONY
LILIAN ANTHONY
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE

Dear,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you. We got your contact from a computerize data following my effort
searching for a trustworthy person to assist us.
We prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to it's
esteeming nature and the recommendations given to us as a reputable and
trust worthy person we can do business with and by their recommendations we
must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.
I am CHARLES ANTHONY, the only son of late Mr and Mrs MIKE ANTHONY and my
sister LILIAN ANTHONY. Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in
Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to
death by his business associates on one of their outing to discuss on a
business deal.
When our mother died on the 21st October 1998,our father took me and my
junior sister special because we are motherless. Before the death of our
father on 30th June 2007 in a private hospital here in Abidjan.
He secretly called us on his bedside and told us that he has a sum of
$20,000.000 (TWENTY Million united states dollar) deposited in a private
bank here on his name.
He also explained to us that it was because of this wealth and some huge
amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the
deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that we
should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of our choice
who can come down and claim this fund from the bank for us for investment
purposes and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate
management).
We are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
( 1) To act as the foreign partner of our father by claiming this fund from
the bank for further transfer and investment to your designated bank
account abroad.
( 2) To serve as the guardian of this since I am a young man of 20 years
and my younger sister just 16.
Moreover, we are willing to offer you 15% of the sum as compensation for
effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your designated
account in your country overseas.
Anticipating to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God Bless.
Best regards
CHARLES ANTHONY
LILIAN ANTHONY



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