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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: "Mrs.Anne Marrie Kouassi" <ababoycavaly2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsannemarrie@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 16:07:48 +0000
Subject: Greetings

Greetings

I'm contacting you based on your good profiles I read and for a good
reasons, I am in search of a property to buy in your country as I
intended to come over to your country for investment, Though I have
not meet with you before but I believe that one has to risk confiding
in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

My name is Mrs Anne Marrie Kouassi. My late husband deals on Crude Oil
with Federal Government of Sudan and he has a personal Oil firm in
Bentiu Oil zone town and Upper Nile city. What I have experience
physically, I don't wish to experience it again in my life due to the
recent civil Ethnic war cause by our President Mr.Salva Kiir and the
rebel leader Mr Riek Machar, I have been Under United Nation refugee
camp in Chad to save my life and that of my little daughter.

Though, I do not know how you will feel to my proposal, but the truth
is that I sneaked into CHAD our neighboring country where I am living
now as a refugee. I escaped with my little daughter when the rebels
bus into our house and killed my husband as one of the big oil dealers
in the country. Ever since then, I have being on the run.

I left my country and move to CHAD our neighboring country with the
little ceasefire we had, due to the face to face peace meeting accord
coordinated by the former US Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry and
United Nations in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) between our President Mr
Salva Kiir and the rebel leader Mr Riek Machar to stop this war.

I want to solicit for your partnership with trust to invest the $8
million dollars deposited by my late husband in Bank because my life
is no longer safe in our country, since the rebels are looking for the
families of all the oil business men in the country to kill, saying
that they are the ones that is milking the country dry.

I will offer you 20% of the total fund for your help, while I will
partner with you for the investment in your country,

I will wait to hear from you so as to give you details.
With love from
Mrs.Anne Marrie Kouassi.

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