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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: jeniffer larry boma <jenifferl3@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:16:55 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: I want you to know about me.


Dear friend,

My name is Madam jeniffer larry boma, A complete citizen of lebanon widow to the late Dr larry boma whom was dead on this recent war b/w isreal and lebanon.my late husband was one of the victim of that bomb attack against the country by the isrealite soldiers which killed so many people including my husband. Infact to be sincere I am no more in my countary because of the war and the bad character of our terrorist attack every way.I am now at cote d'ivoire where my late husband has an access before he was dead for the war,so i need your assistant in order to come over to your countary with my only doughter miss suzy larry for us to plan our life .Before we come over to your countary i want you to foward your full contact to me in order to transfer a money which my late husband was deposited in one of the security company here in abidjan before the inccedent. I want to use your name an foward the money to avoide a mistake along the line because i do not trust peoples that
is here in Africa for the money transfer.Since my husband was no more i have to take good care of thing in order to train my doughter suzy to the higher level.

The total money which my late husband was deposited at the security company was $10.8 (ten million eight hundred US dollars in the year 2003. This money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a security and finance company in Cote d' ivoire under a secret arrangement as a family treasure. This means that the security company does not know the content of this box that was shipped from the lebanon to Cote d' ivoire under a diplomatic coverage.

My main purpose of sending your this mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give this priority of shipping this box of money to any address that you think is very secure and safe in your country with your percentage of which we shall chat on soon. There is need for urgent action because the consignment is accruing charges per day as demurrage to the security company for safekeeping couple with the resent attempt of coup plot last july that has distracted attention of the government and the security delegates on me. This is the contact of the company in Cote d' ivoire for you to call them and give them your address for the immediate shipment of the box today. I will send you the Authorization Certificate to call them in my next mail which is the Certificate of deposit that they gave my late husband on the very day when the box of money was deposited under their company. I give thanks immensely for the co-operation as I look forward to your urgent
response .

Best Regard
Madam jeniffer larry.


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