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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: jovita john <jovita_john3@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:46:59 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Dearest lovely one



Please write me from my pravite Email (jovita_john3@yahoo.fr)

Dearest lovely one,

Permit me to inform you about my desire to seek for assistant from you and i got the believe that you are going to help me out successfully, but firstly i must have to introduce myself to you.

I am a 21 years old girl now, i was born on the 15 of january 1985 to the family of JEAN and my father's name is Joseph JEAN he is a very wealthy Gold and cocoa merchant who based in ACCRA and ABIDJAN respectively, and I am their only child well when i was a kid my father put in a private schools and things were going well for me and my parents till when i got to the high school ,when my mother died on the 21st october 1994 . After the death of my mother my took me so special because i am motherless and he shower all his love on me and promised that he will never have another woman because he did not want me to surfer in hand another woman .
my lovely father who took care of me properly now died his death brought me into this condition today since last year, but before the death of my father on the 10th December 2005 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sum of $3.800 000 (Three Million Eight hundred thousand united states dollars) in a bank here in Abidjan Cote D'ivoire.

Meanwhile, he used my name as the next of kin in depositing of the fund.He also explained to me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business partner and advised that i should seek for foreign partner in a country of my choice where i would transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, such as : real estate investment or stock market investment.

Plesae, i am honourably soliciting your kind assistance as follows :

1. To provide a bank account where this money will be transfered into.

2. To serve as the guardian of these fund since i am 21years old.

3.To make arrangement for me in your country in continuation of my education and to procure me a residential permit in your country since i will be residing there. I am inclined to offer you 15% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your effort after the successful transfering of my fund to your nominated overseas account .
Please i will be very happy if this transaction will be concluded with in seven (7) working days from now.

I am expecting your response urgently .

May Almighty God bless you as you do care for me Amen.

Best regards

JOVITA JEAN



Please write me from my pravite Email (jovita_john3@yahoo.fr)









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