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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Aaren Coulibaly" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <aarenic1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 16:03:32 +0200
Subject: Please Reply Quickly..

I am Miss Aaren Ib Coulibaly, and I am24 years old female from the Republic of Ivory Coast,the Daughter of Late Chief I.B Coulibaly (also known as General I.B). My late Father was a well-known Ivory Coast military leader. He died on Thursday 28 April 2011(a date I will never forget in my life) and this was as a resultof the fight with the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast (FRCI).You can read more about my father in the link below:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/28/ivory-coast-renegade-warlord-ibrahim-coulibaly
I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment which I am receiving from my step mother. She planned to take away my entire late father's treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Father, because my mother died when she was giving-birth and I was left alone with my step mother to take care of me. Meanwhile I wanted to travel to Europe, but she hide-away my traveling documents. Fortunately she did not discover where I kept my father's File which contained important documents (Thewill and Deposit Certificate) of my Father's fund which bears my name as the next of kin to inherit the money in his foreign bank account. Due to heraggression on me, I decided to move away to Republic of South Africa, Now I am presently staying in the South African Diplomatic Refugee Mission Camp, I am seeking for your help(relationship) and investment assistance. My father deposited the sum of US$20.5 Million in his foreign bank account with the First National bank of South Africa (FNB) wi

I have contacted the Bankhere in South Africa to clear the deposit but the head of the bank’sinternational wire-transfer Manager told me that my late father placed an instruction on the deposited fund that I must present a foreign trustee who will help me for the investment of the fund, just due to my young age as at the time of the deposit.

It is my intention to give you the25% of the total money after the transfer to you account in your country and extra 5% for any expenses you will make, for your assistance and the balance shall be for the investment in any profitable business which you will recommend to me as I have no idea about foreign investment. Please all my communications with you should be through my email address; for confidential purposes as for now and I will provide you with my phone numbers once I managed to get any phone with me. Please keep everything confidential until this money goes to your account.
I will introduce you to banker and for you to contact for the transfer of the fund, once I have received your quick reply.

Thank you as I wait for your positive response.
Yours sincerely,
Miss Aaren Ib.Coulibaly My email is this ( aarenic1@gmail.com)

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