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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: Miss Naomi Solomon <naomisolo01@aol.fr>
Reply-To: Miss Naomi Solomon <naomisolo01@aim.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 04:55:12 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Letter From Hospital


My Beloved
One,
This is Miss Naomi Solomon from Cyprus.
I am writing from the hospital in Ivory Coast, therefore this mail is
very urgent to attend please. I am dying here in this hospital which i don't
know what tomorrow will be. I was informed by my doctor that i got poisoned
which got my liver damaged and can only live for some months.
 
Please, the reason why i contacted you today is because i know that my step
mother wants to kill me and take my inheritance from my late Father. I have a
little orphan child named
Andrew Coulibaly and $3.5 million Dollars i inherited from my late father. My
step mother and her children are after Andrew because they found out that i
handed the documents of the money over to him the day she poisoned my food, for
that they do not want Andrew to expose them, so they are doing everything
possible to kill him. So please my beloved, i want you to help him out of this
country with the money because he is the only one taking care of me here in
this hospital right now and even this email you are reading now.
 
I want you to get back to me so that he will give you the documents of the
money and will direct you to a well known lawyer that i have appointed, the
lawyer will assist you to change the documents of the money to your name to
enable the bank transfer the money to you..
 
This is the favour i need when you have gotten the money :-
 
(1) Give 20% of the money to my Andrew as he has been there for me through my
illness and i have promised to support him in life to become a medical Doctor
as he always desire in life. I want you to take him along with you to your
country and establish him as your son.
 
(2) Give 30% of the money to handicap people and charity organization. The
remaining 50% should be yours and others that you would love to assist.
 
Note; This should be a code between you and my son Andrew in this transaction
"Hospital" any mail from him, the Lawyer he will direct you to,
without this code "Hospital" is not from the Andrew, the Lawyer or
myself as i don't know what will happen to me in the next few hours.
 
Finally, Andrew will send to you his International passport to be sure of whom
you are dealing with. Andrew is so little therefore guide him. And if i don't
hear from you i will look for another person or any organization.
 
May Almighty God bless you and use you to accomplish my wish. Pray for
me always.
Miss Naomi Solomon

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