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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: Susan Danie <susandanie555@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:59:31 +0000
Subject: RE CRY FOR HELP


*Miss Susan & Master Daniel Kalon Dear Respectful, Warm greetings to you
and your family in the name of God. I am aware that this is not a formal
approach in starting a relationship, but as time goes on, you will realize
the need for my approach. My email to you will come as a surprise since i
don't know you in person. But if this message comes to you out of your
wish, i am very sorry. I hope that you will read through this email and
understand how difficult things can be for someone in a particular period
in life. I introduce my self to you with all faith, trust and hope you will
understand to assist us not to betray us at the end. My name is Susan,i was
20 Years old when my father died 2 years ago in a gold mine in MENDE,
Republic of Sierra Leone. He was into legal gold mining,he has succeed in
saving the sum of $9 Million U.S.D (Nine million United State Dollars.) in
(BOA) being one of the prime banks here in Abidjan during his Business on
Gold, before he went on a trip to Republic of Cote D‘Ivoire West Africa
near by country to our country to save his money for security reasons
because of the political problem in our country. Since the death of our
father our step mother has been trying to kill us, she has been given us a
lot of problem and she have collected every thing from us and now she still
need the deposit certificate to claim this fund but I can‘t give this to
her because this is all we have to leave with. I am 22 years now while my
brother Daniel is 20 years old of age and we still need to go to school and
have a better education and start a new life. Our step mother knows that
our dad has such money but she don‘t know where exactly the fund is been
deposited. Right now we are hiding here in Ivory Coast . Our father used my
name "Susan Kalon" as the next of kin to the deposited fund. And we ran
away with the deposit document, so nobody have access to the money now
except me and my younger brother Daniel. We need help from you to assist us
to transfer this money to your country for investment and you will be
sincere to invite us to your country without cheating us or doing bad to us
on my arrival with my brother, we are willing to offer you 15% of the total
sum after the transfer of this fund into your account in overseas. Please
mail me urgently to know your stand before we start looking for help
elsewhere, you‘re the first person we are contacting in this issue. Please
permit me to ask, can you honestly help us as your own people and can we
completely trust you? We are kindly requesting for this vital information
from you if you agreed to assist us out of our problem: (1) Your full name
(2) Your Personal telephone number. I will also want you to tell me more
about your self in your reply to my letter to you. Thank you and God bless
you as you help we orphans. Hoping to hear from you soon. I will be
expecting your urgent reply, thanks. Best regardsMiss Susan and Daniel
Kalone*

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