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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: PRIVATE INFO <privateinfor1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: PRIVATE INFO <aching_002@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:44:13 +0900 (JST)
Subject: I AM CRYING FOR YOUR HELP.


To : You my beloved One.

Hi,
Peace be with you.
My Name is Miss Abbygirl Kabore. I am 23 years of age. I am the only daughter of my parents. My mother died when I was little. I was raised up by my father. My father was a wealthy business man dealing in Cocoa, Gold and Diamond.

The sudden death of my father has brought me so many sufferings in the hand of my father’s bothers. My father’s brothers conspired with one of his business associates and poisoned him.Before his death he had called me beside his sick bed and handed me over a document which he used to deposit (US$5.5M) five Million, Five Hundred Thousand USA

Dollars in a security bank in my name as his only daughter, he advised me to look for a foreign partner to transfer the fund for investment purposes.

Right now I am in a hide out. I am contacting you to represent me to transfer this fund to your country. If I hear from you I will give you more details including the deposit certificate issued to my late father by the security bank. I am ready to give you 30% of the total sum.

PLEASE NOTE,Due to confidenciality of this my mail message to you,Kindly respond back to me for details & directives.
Thanks you
Waiting for your urgent respons.
Miss Abbygirl Kabore.

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