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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: Yousif Yamani <orphanaid0@outlook.fr>
Reply-To: yousifyamani@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 00:19:31 +1200
Subject: With Due respect.



--
Greetings,

Dearest one, Please with Due respect and humility, we got your contact
from
the (International web site directory) we know that this is not the best
way to contacts someone because of internet scams in the society but we
did
it because of its confidentiality.

I am Yousif with my younger sister Mariam, Well it is a long story but
we
will try to explain little. Our late parents were very wealthy cocoa
merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital city of (Ivory Coast) before
they
were death by a fatal accident set by his business associate from
Burkina-Faso, which our mother died immediately after the incident on
the
28 November 1998 and our father sustain an internal injury which caused
his
death. According to our late father he took me and my younger sister so
special because we are motherless. Before the death of our father on
29th
April 2009 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me
on
his bedside and told me that he has the sum of ($9.200.000) left in a
suspense account in a Bank in (EUROPE), that he used my name as his
first
son for the next of kin in deposit of the fund.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge
amount of money his business partner from Burkina Faso supposed to
balance
him from the deal they had that he was been set to die by accident, that
I
should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of our choice
where we will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose,
(such
as real estate management) for our future hope.

Please we are honorably seeking your assistance in this very purpose. We
are willing to offer you 15% out of the total sum as compensation for
effort input after the successful transfer of this fund into your
designate
account in your country.As soon as you confirm the money in your
account,
you will be sending us a sufficient amount to get our visa to come over
and
continue our studies in your country.
We have every legal prove about these funds.

We are waiting to hear from you.
Thank you and God bless you.
Yours Sincerely,
Yousif/ Mariam Yamani.

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