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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: Rose Richard <roserichard116@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Rose Richard <rose.richard67@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:38:18 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From: Miss. Rose Richard


From: Miss. Rose Richard
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
West Africa.

RE: APPEAL FOR URGENT & CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE!

Dear,

I am introducing myself to you as Rose Richard an orphan the only daughter of late Chief and Mrs.  Yeorgi Richard. My father was a very wealthy and successful business man, he is into Gold and Oil business, before he passed way after a long time of illness of a food poison here in Abidjan the economic capital of Ivory Coast; my father was poisoned by his brother who capitalized on the fact that my father has no male child to inherit his wealth, My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before my father final dead in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of nine million, five hundred thousand United State Dollars ($US9.5M) left in fixed / suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan, that he used my name as his only daughter for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund That due to the incessant political crisis in this country and to
avoid been kill by his enemies, I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate or hotel management.

Please, I am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To help me transferred this fund into your bank account:

(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am still a small girl:

(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and also to secure a resident permit in your country:

Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas. Furthermore, please indicate your options towards assisting me as my life is not save here because of uncle want to take my father’s   wealth, please reply back to me as soon as you finish reading this email so that I can give more details
i wait to hear from you urgently.


Thanks and God bless.
Yours Sincerely,
Rose Richard

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