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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: jessica toure <jessicatoure47@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <missjessicatoure1988@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:38:21 +0100
Subject: From Miss Jessica Toure


>From Miss Jessica Toure
Cote d Ivoire (Abidjan)
West Africa
Dearest one,
How are you and your family?

I am Miss Jessica Toure from Abidjan Cote d'ivoire in West Africa. I am 18 years old Girl.
I really want a foreign relationship. An honest one that will not cheat me. A God fearing person that I can lay my trust on. Someone that will stand by me to start a new life. I have suffered a lot since I lost my parents, my father was poisoned to death by his business partners on one of their outing to discuss on a business. My late father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant before he was poisoned to death. His family relations are after my life because of my late fathers wealth which supposed to be for me as the nest of kin, All has been taken away by them remaining this deposit in the bank.

Before the death of my father on January 2003, in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of 9 million dollars deposited in a suspense account in a bank here in Abidjan, that he used my name as the next of kin in the deposit of the money. All the documents for the deposit are intact with our church pastor who is taking care of me in the church guest house for safe keeping. My feeding is by charity.
He said to me that it is because of his wealth that his business partners poisoned him, that I should look for a foreign partner or guardian in any country of my choice where I will transfer this money for my education and the rest for investment like real estate management.

I will ask for your assistance to provide a safer bank account where this money will be transfer. To stand as my foreign guardian since am still a young girl of 18 years and to make arrangement for me to come over to your country after the transfer. I have agreed to offer you 20% of the total amount as your reward for your effort and 5% for the expenses after the transfer. I beg you in the name of Jesus to keep this between you and me for the sake of this money and my dear life as I believe that the transfer will be finish within 7 days you accept to help me. I am sorry if this my mail will in any way inconveniences you. I don’t need any money from any man, what I need is trust, honest, sincere and faithfulness.
I wait to hear from you soonest so that I can send to you the details of the deposit and the contact of the bank where this money is deposited. This is genuine, risk free and legal transfer. My greetings to you. I will be happy to hear from you soonest,

Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Jessica


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