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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: janjenny444@aim.com
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:19:51 -0400
Subject: Re: Please Reply!!!


Dear Amarjit Singh,

Please be informed that I have sent you my response in respect of my proposal letter to you but up till now I have not been able to get a reply from you in that respect. please be informed that I really want you to do this for me despite your bad experience in Cote d'Ivoire, trust me, am a sincere and God fearing person and I am willing to meet you in person to prove myself to you, you see one thing is knowing whom you are dealing with and another thing is trust people without knowing whom they are. I am very serious about this, this is not a joke but a very serious transaction and I desire that if you agree to move forward with me, you take this transaction very serious as well because this is a golden opportunity both of us have to change our entire life for better and you cannot afford to let this sleep out of your hand, however, I am promising to make sure that I will complete this transaction with you, if only you are willing and ready to assist me move forward with this transaction, as I have earlier
stated in my first mail to you, I cannot do this all alone, hence I need your maximum cooperation and assistance to accomplish this goal.

Sincerely speaking, no body introduced you to me rather I got your contact e-mail address, while surfing the internet, as a matter of fact, I got about there different e-mail contact addresses, being a Christian, my sprite led me to fast and pray over this and after one week of praying and fasting, I was led by my sprite to contact you in respect of this. However, the reason why am asking you to come over here is that this money is currently here in Spain with a security company and the transaction must be completed here before transferring the fund into your nominated bank account once we have completed all procedure.

For your information, this money has nothing to do with any form of illegality, this is a legitimate money that dully belongs to my late husband, I am ready to prove genuinely to you that this money truly belongs to my late husband, all documents covering this money will be made to your disposal for your verification and confirmations to certify your curiosity concerning this fund but please be in mind that before I do that, you must first agree to move forward with me in this transaction because I do not want anything that will jeopardize transaction as my whole life depends on this money now.

You see my son and I, we have went through a lot since the death of my late husband, coming to Spain has not been easy but one thing I still hold on to is my faith, which keeps me stronger every day that passes by, I promise to be sincere and faithful with you and I expect you to reciprocate the same back to me to enable us have a smooth conclusion of this transaction.

Please be informed that I am unable to send you a copy of my picture at this time because where I am right now there is no scanning machine to do that but I promise to make sure that I will send it to you as soon as I can, however you can reach me through this number is Spain: + 34 65950 4816 and you can as well speak with my son, he is very worried seeing me in this state, but all hope is not lost, God will surely see us through.

Finally, please be informed that because of security reasons and for the interest of this transaction, you are requested to communicate with me through this new e-mail address: JanJenny444@aim.com note: that you will be required to conclude this transaction with the assistance of a lawyer on my behalf. I will try my best to call you but in-case you did not get my call, understand that I might be finding it difficult to get through to you and you can as well call me on the number I already provided above.

Thank you, while looking for to hearing from you soon to enable me provide you more information on how to move this transaction forward.

Mrs. Janet George.
JanJenny444@aim.com


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