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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: "Jeanne BIAKA Dominique" <jeannembiaka@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jeannembiaka2@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:30:31 +0000
Subject: From: Jeanne BIAKA Dominique

From: Jeanne BIAKA Dominique

With sincerity, trust and honesty, I wish to inquire of your services to be my foreign
partner / investor and support me to transfer and manage my funds by investing in profit
making ventures like buying of company shares or Real Estate Investment Trust funds in your
country. The recent growth of your country Economy and Trade activities impressed me,
having thought of how greater the market will look in the next 10-20 years.

My name is Jeanne Marcelle BIAKA Dominique, the only daughter of late Chief Mr. BIAKA
Dominique. My father was very wealthy farmers and cocoa merchant when he was alive. I lost
my Mother when I was too young to know my mother, My father took me so special because I am motherless, Now my father was poisoned by his business associates which he suffered and
died.

Before he died in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side
and disclosed to me about the sum of Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand USD
($17,500,000.00) he kept in a secret box as consignment with a Security Company here in
Ivory coast, which he later instructed the Security Company to move the consignment to
Europ due to the political crisis here in Ivory Coast. it was the money he intended to
transfer overseas for investment before he was poisoned. He also instructed me that I
should seek for a foreign partner in any country of my choice who will assist me transfer
the money in overseas account where the money will be save and invested wisely.

Please, I am seeking for your kind assistance to contact the Security Company were the fund
was deposited and provide a safe bank account into where the money will be transferred for
investment. So that you can serve as a guardian of the money since I am a girl of 21 years
old. After the money is transferred to your country, you make arrangement for me to come
over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit for me in your
country.

Please observe the utmost confidentiality of this transaction until we meet face to face in
your country I will forward to you all the evidence of deposit including my personal photo
once I hear from you. I beg to concede 25% of this money to you for your efforts
assistance.

May the grace of our almighty be with you.

Jeanne Dominique
Email: jeannembiaka2@yahoo.fr


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