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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: "From Miss Jane Kamara.ei" <jane_kamara_j@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:11:23 -0400
Subject: View this article - From Miss Jane Kamara.ei


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Hi,
I would like you to see the following article.

http://www.virtualterminalnetwork.com/

My message :
From Miss Jane Kamara
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
West Africa.

Dearest One
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
Miss Jane Kamara. the only Daughter of late Mr Kamara, from Cote
D'Ivoire. (I am 22years of age.) My father was a liability Cocoa and
Gold merchant in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire before his untimely death. After
his business trip to Tunisia, to nagociate on a cocoa and gold business
he wanted to invest in Tunisia , a week after he came back from Tunisia
, he fail to sick and died five days after in a private hospital. On
that faithful afternoon, I didn't t know that my father was going to
leave me after I had earlier lost my mother when I was a baby, but
before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.
He my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he called me to his
bed side and told me that he deposited the sum of ($6,700,000.00) Six
Million Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars in a bank here in Cote
D'Ivoire.

That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold business he wanted to
establish in Tunisia, 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 war 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 predicame.

I seek your assistance in the following ways:

(1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be transferred into.

(2.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your country after the
successful transferring of this money into your account, to come and
further my education.

(3.) To help invest this money in a profitable business since I am only
22yrs of age and do not know much about business.

(4) To sponsor me transfer this money into your account,

(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 belong to me and now he want me to hand over the banking
document of my father in my possession 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 coupled with the political crisis in our country now, I
ran away from home and hide in a hotel, pending when this money will be
transferred so that I can leave the country for my safty.

Please reply me so that i will give you more details.


Thanks and be bless.
Yours sincerely,
Jane
Thank You
From Miss Jane Kamara.ei

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