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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: Mawa Mamba <mawamamba@outlook.fr>
Reply-To: Mawa Mamba <mawamamba77@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 21:54:02 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From: Miss. Mawa Mamba


From: Miss. Mawa Mamba
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
West Africa.

RE: APPEAL FOR URGENT & CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE!

Dear,

I am introducing myself to you as Miss. Mawa Mamba an orphan, the only daughter
of late Chief and Mrs. Richard Mamba. 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  3.4milion
American dollarsleft 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 30% 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,
Mawa Mamba

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