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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: "marey.janne" <marey.janne@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 00:01:00 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: my dear i need your help in my life thank God that i am alive




my dear i need your help in my life
thank God that i am alive
i am marey.janne.koffi i am from ivory.coast i am 20y plase i am
contacting you for a purpose i will like to hear from you for more
infromation about me my dear i will be happy to hear from you .in my
country we have crisis in election please i need your help in my life
please (marey_janne@yahoo.com or you can call me to belive +22503491538)
contact me for more information



My Dearest one,
Based on your profile, l am happy to request for your assistance and i
believe that you will not betaryed the trust which i am going to lay on
you.

It is my pleasure to write you after consideration, since I can not be
able to see you face to face, at first, please I need your help. I am
marey.janne the only Daughter of late Mr & Mrs. koffi from Cote D'Ivoire.
(I am 20years of age.) My father was a rich Raw Rubber merchant in Abidjan
Cote D'Ivoire before his untimely death. After his business trip to
Sudan, to negociate on a cocoa and rubber business he wanted to invest in
Sudan, a week after he came back from Sudan, he was attack by hired men
who suceeded in murdering my mother and fataly wounded my father on his
attempt to escaped from his car,atfer taking to hosipal by a passby he
died a few days due to the cutless wounds But before he give up he
called me to his bed side and told me that i should seek for my life that
his elder brother is the one that hired those men and he will still seek
to kill me too due to greedyness he also told me that he deposited the sum
of ($6,500,000.00) Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars in a bank here
in Cote D'Ivoire.

That the money was meant for his raw Rubber business he wanted to
establish in Sudan, according to my father he deposited the money in a
fixed suspense account using my name as the next of kin, He instructed me
to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time
investment abroad.

Now I have succeeded in locating the deposit documents and the bank where
this money is here in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire. Due to political uprising
in my country Cote D'Ivoire.
I am now seeking for your assistance to help me transfer this money out
from my country Cote D'Ivoire to your account abroad so that we should
invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business in your country because
this is my only hope in life. I am willing to offer you 15% of the total
fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament.
I seek your assistance in the follwing ways:

(1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be transfered
(2.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your country to further
my education.
(3.) To help invest this money in a profitable business since I am only
20yrs of age and do not know much about business.
(5). I want you to promise me that you are not going to betray me after
the money gets into your account.

The worst part of it is that my uncle is trying to kill me over this money
because I refused to hand him over the documents covering this money, He
has sold all my father's landed properties including his cars which
rightful belongs to me and now he want me to hand over the banking
document of my father in my possesion which I refused. Now he said that he
will have this money by all means even if it means killing me, so because
of this I ran away from home and hide in a church ,pending when i will
found someone trustworthy to help me get this money out from my country
here to his or her account for safety.

Thank's and God bless you.

marey janne

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