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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: Kone Joy <j_kone15@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 01:40:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: hi


>From Miss Joy Kone 

Pardon me for using this medium to introduce myself to you
I
am Joy Kone by name the only daughter of (Engr. Shafi kone), I know you
will be waiting to know who is my father, according to my mother who
told me that my
father is a Citizen of Republic of Yemen according to her she told me
that many years ago that she was living in Yemen after her education
there she meet with my father, after some months she took in and she
told my father and my father rejected her ,that he was not responsible
for it, there is nothing easy for her to do then to wait after 9 months
she gave birth to me, note my mother become very rich after she hard
worked in allot of Offices in Swiss, London but mistakenly she did not
addressed me to my father which I have asked her about him but she
advised me not to talk about him again my mother did not get married to
any other man thinking that men's are wicked,

It
is sad to say that she passed away mysteriously in France during last
year on censer operations. Since then my mothers brothers have taken
away every of her access and pushed me away from the house calling me
names that I don't have position to there home that I should go and meet
who is my father, I want you to know that this people wants to kill me
only because of money houses lands car which was brought by own mother
However, before the death of my late mother she gave me some important documents where she deposited the sum of , Four Million,Seven  Dollars.
($4,700,000.00) with a Bank here in Abidjan, and she told me that I
should look for a foreigner who will receive this money into his/her
country overseas for onward investment,
This bellow request is what I need from you

1) To provide a bank account where this money will be transferred into.
2) To serve as the guardian of these fund by providing where to invest the funds
3)
To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational
career and to procure me a residential permit in your country.

I
will offer you 15% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your
effort after the successful transferring of this fund to your nominated
account overseas. Please I will be very happy if this transaction will
be concluded in seven (7) working days from now. I am expecting to hear
from you as soon as possible.
Best regards.
Your's love.Miss Joy
Kone

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