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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: Oben Die <obendiee@outlook.com>
Reply-To: Oben Die <obendiee@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 20:55:14 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Oben Die,


Compliments of the day to you,

My name is Oben Die, I am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow from my heart. With all due respect, trust and humanity, honestly, I will like to have a good relationship with you, and I have a special reason why I decided to contact you, is because of the urgency of my situation, I am 20 years old boy, from west Africa

After my father's funeral, my stepmother and uncle conspired and sold my father's property to an Italian Expert rate which they divided the money among themselves and live nothing for me. A faithful morning, I opened my father's briefcase and found the documents which he have deposited huge amount of money in a Bank here in Cote d'Ivoire, with my name as the next of kin. The amount is (9,7 M $) Nine Million Seven hundred thousand US dollars, and I
have confirmed from the Bank in Ivory Coast when I arrived, it is my intention to compensate you with 30% of the total money for the services and the balance is to be my capital in the device. I will how much you disclose if you can help me to relocate to your country because my stepmother threatened to kill me.

I'm an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to this transaction sincerely appreciate.
Please keep this even just for now, until the money released to your country. I have the documents for the claims.

I am waiting for your reply:

Yours
Oben Die

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