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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 Noeln Zoueba <noeln.zoueba01@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:37:56 +0100
Subject: From Mr.Noel N'zoueba.

Good day,


I am Mr.Noel N'zoueba, a banker by proffession from Abidjan, Ivory
Coast West Africa.

I have very important matter to discuss with you about a left over
fund in our bank. The fund is US$6,500,000.00- and it is a risk free
deal.Let me explain better tp you.if you are interested.

To be frank with you, what i have contacted you for is a true deal,and
we can get this money within 30 days if we handle this well. I will
want us to talk over the phone if you do not mind. This is a good life
opportunity if we can handle this well.

It is just that i can not be able to do this alone,hence i need a
foreigner,whose name would be used to move this fund out from here,and
it is 100% risk free.

This fund here has no beneficiary status to it in our system, and once
i fix your informations into our bank computerto appear as the
beneficiary to this fund, then this fund becomes yours automatically.
And you can contact our bank to claim the fund without any problem.

To tell you the truth, there will be little expenses on this,and that
will be after i have completed my part and when you contact our bank
for the transfer.

Please i want you to also understand that i am not forcing you into
this. It is a very good opportunity that will remove our families from
poverty for life.

Let me make it more clear to you that if we don't use this good
opportunity now, this fund would be confiscated later by the
government, because there is no beneficiary to this fund, no one will
come for it.

And if it is confiscated,the government will announce that it will be
used for charity,but the people at the government will share the money
among them and the matter will be closed.

Therefore, this is a good life opportunity for us, if you are truly
ready to be part of this and handle this well upon my advise as
insider.


Regards.

Mr.Noel N'zoueba.

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