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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: "Mr. Kouame Ganzrin Hugues" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kouame.g.hugues@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 03:20:16 -0000
Subject: UPDATE..

Attn: Beneficiary.

I am Kouame Ganzrin Hugues Chairman of Cote D’Ivoire (PLCC) in alliance with economic community of West African states (ECOWAS). We have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Western part of Africa With the help of United States Government and the United Nations. We have been able to track down so many of this scam artist in various parts of African countries and they are all in our custody here in Cote D’Ivoire. We have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists. The United Nation Anti-crime commission and the United State Government have ordered the money recovered from the Scammers to be shared among 100 Lucky people around the globe. This email is been directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard disk in our custody here. You are therefore being compensated with $500,000 Five Hundred Thousand Dollars. We have also arrested all those who claim to be barristers, bank officials, Lottery Agents who has

Since your name appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a compensation of $ 500,000 Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, we have arranged your payment through our swift card payment center. Feel free to contact the processing officer Rev. Peter Johnson. The swift card has been specially prepared to enable you withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but the maximum amount to withdraw is Five Thousand Dollars Only per day. So you are advice to contact, processing Officer Rev. Peter Johnson with your provided information's required. 1) Your Full Name. 2) Your Receiving Address. 3) Your Telephone Number

Contact: Rev. Peter Johnson
Contact Address: reveren.johnson@priest.com
TEL: 00225 4310 4752.

Best Regard,
Mr. Kouame Ganzrin Hugues.

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