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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: Lebrun Patricia <joyjacaranda2009@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: lebrun.famille@live.com
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:06:12 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hello




Hello!
How are you, please I decided to contact you and to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. My name is Miss. Patricia Lebrun. A complete citizen of Canadian, The survival daughter to late Mr Jean Lebrun, who died of ulcer and he has been buried.

I inherited a total sum of US$5.8 million dollars from my late Father, this money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a security and finance company in Cote d'Ivoire, Due to the instruction he laid down before he deposited the box, that he needed maximum security/safety of my consignment and no body nor government organization can trace where about of the box until were ready and prepare to claim it. This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family treasure. This means that the security and Finace company does not know the content of this trunk box.

My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give you this priority of shipping the box of money to any address that you think is very secure and save with your percentage of which we shall talk on soon.

In fact, Since the death of my Father, his brothers has been seriously chasing me around with constant treats, trying to suppress me so that they might have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them. They have successfully collected all his properties, yet they never stopped there, they told me to surrender all bank account of my late father, which I did, but I never disclose to them this deposit with the security and Finance company because, this is where my future and destiny lies upon.

The family of my Father never aware of the secret existence of this deposit which my late Father made with the Security Company and they can never be aware of it.

Out of fear of my Father's family, and when the situation becomes uncontrollable because of pressure on me from the family, I ran for my life, staying in the Mission camp in Cote d'Ivoire and had contacted the Security and Finance Company to claim the deposit but the branch Manager told me that being a refugee that my status does not permit and according to the local law and the agreement between my late father and the Security Company does not authorize me to carry out the operation to the money. However, he advised me to provide a trustee who will stand on my behalf. I decide to contact you in other to assist me retrieve this money from the Security Company for onward lodgment into your account for the purpose of future investment. consider my situation as an Orphan and come to my rescue.

I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from you soon.

All the best,
Miss. Patricia

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