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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: Mavelous Kone <mavelous1996@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Mavelous Kone <mavelous1995@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:11:23 +0900 (JST)
Subject: God Bless You


God Bless You

My name is Madam Marvelous Kone and i am from Cote d'Ivoire , I am 59 years old, I am suffering from a long time Cancer of the breast. From all indication my condition is really deteriorating, and my Doctors have courageously advised me that I may not live beyond next month, this is Because the cancer stage has reached a critical stage. I was brought up in a Motherless baby home, and was married to my late husband for twenty years we have only one child his name is Eddy. My late husband and I are true Christians, but quite unfortunately. The 2010–11 Ivorian crisis was a political crisis in Ivory Coast which began after Laurent Gbagbo, the President of Ivory Coast since 2000, was proclaimed the winner of the Ivorian election of 2010,My late husband was a very wealthy Cocoa merchant in Bouaké, Cote d'Ivoire in west Africa. and also a politician and a close associate of former president of Cote d’Ivoire. 

Before his death we were both born again Christians. I decided not to re-marry, My husband Deposited the sum of $9.5 million dollars here in Cote d'Ivoire Presently, I am presently with the deposit slip but why i seek for your help is because he made his next of kin as his foreign partners, I am pleading with you, to please help me in securing this fund, because i want the best for my son, and my condition is getting worse day by day.
You can invest the money in your country, and take my son along with you, raise him in a Godly way, and one more thing, being an orphan before i got married i still have love for charity work, please you can invest part of the fund  into charity organization, the poor and the motherless babies home and widows around. I must let you know that this was a very hard decision, But I had to take a bold step towards this issue because I have no further option.

I hope you will help see my last wishes come true.

Best regards,
Madam Mavelous Kone

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