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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: jane adams <mlle_jn24@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mlle_jn@myway.com
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:07:12 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: hello


Avenue 12 Rue 47 ABIDJAN
DANANI REFUGEE
CAMP, ABIDJAN
REPUBLIC OF COTE-D'IVOIRE

Dear,

Good Day and God bless as I introduce my self to you with all faith and
hope you will understand me and not to betray me at the end.
I have the intention to introduces myself to you My name is JANE ADAMS
the only daughter and my brother's name is DENIS ADAMS the only son .We
are the children of late CHIEF BENSON ADAMS. I am 18 years old, our
father died about 1 year ago on the 5th of April 2006, in a gold mine in
MENDE, Republic of Serria Leone . He was into legal gold mining, he has
succeeded in saving $7.2 millions dollars (seven million two
hundredthousand U.S. Dollars) during his Business on Gold, before he went on a
trip to Republic of Cote D' Ivoire near by country to our country to
save his money for security reasons because of the political problem in
our country. Unfortunately he is dead and I will not want the money to
be kept like that without any investment purpose . so I am contacting
you with full trust that you will not let us down .

We need help from you to help us transfer this money to your country
for investment and
who will be sincere to invert us to his country with out cheating us or
doing bad to us on my arrival with my brother, I'm willing to give you
30% of the money after the transfer of the moneyand 5% extra for any
expense you incurs in this transaction, please mail us immediately
urgent to know your stands before looking else where you're the first person
we are contacting and also send your phone number as soon as possible
to enable us to beat the said time.

Now permit us to ask these few questions:-

1. Can you honestly help us as your own person?

2. Can we completely trust you?

3. Hope our percentage offer is good accepted by you?

Please, Treat this email confidential and get back to us as soon as
possible.

Yours Sincerely,

Jane and Denis

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