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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 arizapa johnson <jean_arizapap4@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <jean_arizapa01@ozu.es>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:43:35 +0200
Subject: From Jean Arizapa Johnson



>From Jean Arizapa Johnson

I am Mrs JEAN ARIZAPA JOHNSON 59yrs old ,i would have written you earlier than now but i was
seriously down curse of my illiness i am at the hospital all this weal with my doctors over my
high blood pressure and diabetes which keep weighing me down coupled with my right leg seriously
scatterred due to bullet shots by the rebels which kept me totally handicapped at my age of 9yrs.

Well I had this urgly experience since my husband was assasinated by the heartless rebels during
the war in my country Monrovia-Liberia recently during the regime of exiled Charles Taylor,and
the rebels entered our house and killed my husband at the spot. I am grieved and tears in my eyes
as i am explaining this to you for your understanding .
Well i thank God they did not take my life and the lives of my children.My late husband,Mr Dike
S. Johnson made a lot of money for me and my children before he was eventually killed.He strictly
deposited in a Bank USD$9.5M here in London which i want to invest in your country immediately as
i am not strong enough at the moment and my son are still young and were schooling before this
tragic situation that poised between hope and disaster in my family.
As you can see my condition is so bitter and urgly at the moment due to this war in my as all our
properties at home was burnt down and destroyed by the heartless rebels who particularize their
action in destroying people's homes,properties and lives especially on the wealthy and prominent
citizens.

For this reason me and my son have to leave our home town and come down here in london where my
late husband deposited this money in a bank account here in london.Based on the fact that london
is a english speaking country, me and my son and daughters can not cope up with the living here
and as such wants to move this money out of this place for investment on joint partnership
arrangement if you will understand our present situation and assist us in both re-locating this
deposit for investment in your country as well as assiting my self and son out of this country
for our living and investment with this deposit through your advise as we have not being into
business before and have no knowledge of any kind of business,hence my plead for you to assist us
in this regard. I will equally need your assistance in probably sharing your knowledge and
experience in business with my son so he can have a better life and better future in your
country.

I advise that we handle this matter strictly between you and us without the involvement of third
party, please i beg you,as no one can predict the mind of people of the world due to lack of
trust and lack of sincerity and the bad mind of the world.
Why i am trying to explain all these to you is for you to know our present situation and my
handicapsy at moment which is my major reason for taking this deposit out from here to your
country for investment on a mutual terms of agreement that will be agreedupon by both of us
during our meeting.Please i want you to understand that this matter is very important to me as
such must be taken very serious though this might sound strange to you as we have not met before
but accept it with purity,sincerity,honesty,committment and compassion of your heart because of
our urgly situation and the genuiness of our mind in contacting you and also our desperation to
partner with you with this money available to us now as our only hope for our future survival
especially that of my son.

With due respect and on behalf of my son, we thank you so much for your understanding in this
matter and wish to inform you also that God will make it possible for you to understand my reason
for this call for assistance as God will bless this relationship and your understanding so that
it will be of testimonies to our both families in due course.
We are anxiously awaiting your positive assurance, trustworthiness and response to our this mail
so that we can further proceeed,God bless you for your understanding.
Compliment of the day.my private email (jean_arizapa01@ozu.es)
Mrs.Jean Arizapa Johnson and son David.
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