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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: jennifer Abend <abendjennifer2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <missjenniferabend@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:30:51 -0500
Subject: From Miss: Jennifer Abend










From Miss: Jennifer Abend
Accra, Ghana.

Good day, how are you today together with your family? I hope fine? Please look not unto race or religion, because this has been problem facing the world as a whole. please do Permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I'm Jennifer N Abend (17years old) from Cote d'Ivoire, and the only child of Late Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Abend. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Cote d'Ivoire.
He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby. Before the death of my father on Sept. 2006 in a private hospital there in Cote d'Ivoire, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Eight million five hundred and fifty thousand United States Dollars USD ($8.550,000) deposited in a security company in Ghana. He told me that he used my name (Jennifer N Abend) as the next of Kin to deposit the money. He then strongly advised me NOT to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from any country of my choice (outside my country,Cote d'Ivoire ) that will assist me in the wise investment of the money.I have since left the money in the security company, with the view of making use of it for investment purposes after my educational carrier. But as you may be already aware by now, my country (Cote d'Ivoire ) is presently at war caused by political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards the capture of the commercial center of the country(Cote d'Ivoire),
I am presently in Ghana,where the money was deposited my late father and finally i decided to take quick actions and have this money retrieved out of the country Ghana. I am presently in Ghana now, my uncles have collected all my fathers properties saying that i am a female child that i do not have any right in the family.
That is why i need your urgent assistance to transfer it out of the country and I will use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management Because of this i am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To be my guardian and then assist me financially to see that this money is retrieve from the security company.
(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and then settle there permanently.
I am willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Please let me know if you feel the percentage i offered is not ok by you.As soon as i receive your full assurance and corporation, I will then give you the contact information of the security company, for you to find out the requirement we need to proceed so that the money can be released.
Meanwhile, my father told me that the security company dose not know the content of the box, he told me that he made them to understand that the contents of the TWO trunk Boxes contains some family goods such as art cast.
I shall also send my picture to you and shall also need yours too.
No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please i beg you to reply me back.

Thanks and God bless you.
Regards,
Miss. Jennifer

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