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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.
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: "Jeniffer Guei" <prince_amakwa@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jenifferguei@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 02:35:14 +0000
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME
Dear Sir,/ma This mail would come to you as a surprise,but for the sake of God and humanity i want you to treat it with utmost concern and urgency,i am jeniffer guei ,a girl of 27yrs old a citizen of ivory coast presently in Dakar senegal trying to sort out some problem befalling me.I need your help to clear off some valuebles items. As a result of my late father legacy,such as gold,diamond and $12.3m deposited in a security company.I have met several times with the director of the security company,and he keep telling me that the only way you can clear off this items is through the help of a realible foreign partner,because according to him that my late father registered this items as goods and vital documents belonging to a foreign partner. Is a strategy to fake the government just incase of future probing,because my late father was a key member in government,for security reason i will tell you his position when i get your respond,this i!
s where i need your help you will come in as the foreign partner, Please get back to me so that details of how the transaction will be carried out will be given to you,God bless you. Jeniffer Guei
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