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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: jean thomas <jeanthomas225@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:06:41 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: JEAN


JEAN THOMAS GUEI
ABIDJAN,IVORY COAST.
Dear One
This mail surely will be a surprise to be in your mail, as the case is so
urgent that i had to contact you for a divine help so that my life can be
re-defined.After the assination of all my family, i happened to be his
only surviving son as at today and since the death of my father his is
still not buried since his assasination on the 19th of September,2002.
I am 19 years Old, JEAN THOMAS GUEI, from Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory
Coast) the SON of General GUEI ROBERTS who died recently during the
military coup'detat.As a former Head of State My father acquired and
deposited one diplomatic boxes in a private security company here in
Abidjan, containing 28million USD including Gold and Diamond worth more
than $30million with a corresponding agency in Europe. Before he died
arrangement was on, for him to move this money to Europe through a
diplomatic Immunity by the Security Company.
I am therefore contacting you for an assistant so that the consignment
would be claimed from the security and Finance Company by assisting us to
pay for the demurrages charges that has accumulated due to the duration of
the consignment before arranging a Diplomatic Immunity for the money to be
shipped or transported to your nominated environment where we can
have a meeting together.
NOTE: That the company does not know the exact content of the boxes for
security reason, it was rather labelled as family valuables. I will also
need your assistance for investing the money in your country i shall be
sending you all the documents issued to my late father by the Security
Company after your acceptance, my mother and i have agreed to compensate
you with 20% from the total Sum.
Time is not on my side, I will appreciate if you can get in touch with me
as soon as possible so that I can give you more information about my
proposals. you should be assured that there is nothing to worry about,
everything will be done by our family attorney provided you can give me
guarantee that the boxes will be well secured and that you will not take
advantage of my situation.I will be so pleased if you can arrange to
travel down here to see things for yourself in Ivory Coast here.You can
reach me through this e-mail address;(jeanthomas225@yahoo.fr)
I will stop here.
JEAN THOMAS GUEI.
Jean Guei
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