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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: "Vivian J. Paul" <vivian.johnp24@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:29:32 +0100
Subject: Please My Dear, I' need your help.

*Good Day My Dear, *
* Dear, I am writing this mail to you with profound respect and humble
submission, I beg to state the following few lines for your kind
consideration. I hope you will spare some of your valuable minutes to read
the following appeal with sympathetic mind. I must confess that it is with
great hope, joy and enthusiasm to write you this mail and I believe byp the
faith that it must surely find you in good condition of health. My name is
Vivian John Paul Oulu 24 years old female from the Republic of Kenya, the
daughter of Late Barrister, John Paul Oulu. My late father was a Kenyan
lawyer and human rights activist who was the Chief Executive Officer and
Communications and Advocacy Officer of the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid
Clinic Kenya (OFFLACK). My Father was brutally shot dead on Thursday 5Th
March 2009 after a government spokesman accused their group of aiding a
criminal gang. What led to the cold blood killing is still unclear but I
know that my father life was the target. You can read more about my father
on the link below. *
http://www.fidh.org/en/africa/kenya/Kenya-Assassination-of-Messrs



*After the death of my beloved father my wicked step mother along with
my uncles team together and sold everything that my late father had
and share the money within themselves, I lost my mother long time ago, and
since then, my father loved me so dearly at my tender age may he rest in
peace and may the great God give him a safe entry in Paradise Amen. Before
the death of my father, he told me that he made a fixed deposit of the sum
of Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($8.500.000.00)
in one of the Banks here in Burkina Faso, with my name as his next of kin,
which I confirmed his statement positively from the bank. But on my arrival
to the Bank to withdraw the fund, the Bank foreign Operation Department
Director whom I meet in person told me that my father instruction to their
bank is that the fund would only be release to me when I am married or
present a trustee/partner who will help me and invest the fund overseas
after the transfer, and the bank ask me to go and look for a foreign
partner who will be representing me as my legal appointed trustee and
present beneficiary. *


*Therefore my dear, I am soliciting and pleading for your help for
transferring of my inheritance fund into your bank account and investment
assistance in your Country as my legal appointed trustee as the bank
mentioned and it will be my intention to compensate you with 40% of the
total fund for your services and help then the balance shall be my capital
in your establishment which you are going to establish there in your
country or position as my trustee and manger. I have suffered lots of set
back as a result of my parents death. I left Kenya, because of incessant
family problem. Presently, I am currently residing in Christ De King
Refugee camp here in Ouagadougou Capital city of Burkina Faso. Hence, I
want to settle in your country to further my education and spend the rest
of my life. Please consider my request as my life is being hugely
affected. Thanking you a lot of your quick response. I will give you
details in my next mail after receiving your acceptance mail to help me.*
*Yours Sincerely **Vivian John Paul.*

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