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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: "florence monoh" <monohflorence@msn.com>
Reply-To: florence101@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:15:23 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL

Dearest One,

Greetings to you, I know this letter will be strange to you. It comes from a
young 19 years old girl

held up in a war country, Ivory Coast. My father was in government in Sierra
Leone for about 3 years we had no problems untill Johny Paul Koroma seized
power. My father ran with me here and we decide to take refuge here in Ivory
Coast. Things have been ok untill the killings and political situation here
become a problem. Now he is late and have made investments for me here, but
the situation here is so bad and the building stand to be taken away by
those supporting and not supporting the government.



My problem is before the death of my father he deposited money with a bank
here amounting to $7,500,000(seven million Five hundred thousand dollars)
And the only option is for me to contact a reliable friend with a fatherly
and motherly heart to help me transfer the fund to a safe country . Then i
will move and continue my education there, I promised that whoever help me
will stay with me since my both parents are not alive as well. My relations
have made effort to come here and pick whatever belongs to our family but i
refused them because they will leave me without anything for my education.
Pls. help me, i compose this letter with tears.



The Pastor who i am staying with here has agreed to cooperate with anybody
outside here that want to help me to stay with Him. Pls. help to get me out
of here, the peace efforts here is not working and rich families are running
out. I dont want to trust blindly to lose everything i have inherited from
my late father.

Pls.reply to this private email address
Email: monohflorence@msn.com

Hoping to hear from you urgently.
Thank you and God bless you
Mss Florence Micheal.



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