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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: Mathieu <utilisateur@admin-webmail.site>
Reply-To: matkou69@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:24:55 +0000
Subject: (pas d'objet)



--
Hello,

First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Mr Mathieu Kouassi, I
am
a staff in one of the banks here in Abidjan Ivory coast working in
account
Department and I would like to know if you can be at my disposal to
strike
a perfect/smooth deal in my Bank here. I discovered anonymous fund
totaling
$25.4M

This fund has been floating in our suspense account for the past years,
in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with
his entire family in September 2007 in a plane crash.Since the
notification
of his death our bank have been expecting his next of kin to come
forward
and claim his fund because our bank cannot release it unless somebody
applies for it as the next of kin or relative to the Deceased Person as
indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but unfortunately I
learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him
at
the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claims. Therefore, I
request
for your assistance by presenting you as the next of kin/beneficiary of
Deceased Account, so that the fund can be claimed and transfer to your
bank
account.

The request of a foreigner as the next of kin in this deal is occasioned
by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an Ivorian cannot stand
as
next of kin to a foreigner. I will agree that 40% of this money will be
for
you as a foreign partner. In respect to the provision of a foreign bank
account where the fund will be transfer and 60 % would be for me. Please
let me know if you are interested and also send your direct telephone
numbers for discussion of this deal in details.
Best regards,
Mr Mathieu Kouassi

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