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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: lizana muri <lizana_081@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <lizana_m9@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:37:45 +0100
Subject: Your help is needed please,



Your help is needed please, I just search this site now and i got your contact, and after reading your profile and i find out that you are a reliable person. With the information i find out about you i eel that you will help me with trust .So I desieded to contact you.

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise but I will like you to take this as one of the things people over come on this earth. And I know that it is God that led me to get your contact so that you may be able to help me. Before I will go on let me introduce my self to you so that you will be able to know me well. My name is Miss Lizana Muriel a 22 yrs old girl from Cote D'Ivoire in West Africa.My mother is from Liberia why my father is from Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire in West Africa. My father and my mother where living in Liberia and I was born in Liberia. My mother died in Liberia when the war break into Liberia and my Father took me to his country Cote D'ivoire where he Established a company . I am the only daughter to my parents so when my father took me to Abidjan in Cote D'ivoire That was my first time to visite cote d'ivoire since i was born. I was with my father happenly untill the 1st of June 2007 my father Came back from a family meeting arround 10.15p.m in the night and he started to vormite blood from his mount. So i took him to the hospital and my father died 3 days letter . So at the Hospital my Father discloosed to me about some documents in his Brifcase that he used to deposit the sum of £18.600.000.00 Euro (Eigtheen Million Six Hundred Euro) with a bank here in this country.

My Father disclosed this to me immediately his doctor told him that he was poissoned so my father told me to look for a foriegner whom i can be able to trust who will be able to assist me to get this fund transferred from this bank to his or her account in his or her country so that i can be able to go out from this country incase if anything happen to him.

So Immediately my father died and the doctor told me about my fathers death so i ran to our house to get this documents from where my father told me that he kept it. So ran to hand over this documents to out church pastor for security reasons.

So after the burrial of my father , A month leter my Uncles i mean my late father's brother take over all my father has , Houses and my father's company so they told me to go out from the house because i am not there brother child. It is true that i was born in Liberia and i only came to this country my first time after the death of my mother so they did not know my mother. so they said that i am not there brothers child that i have no right in my father's proparty.

So they drove me out and took all that i have even the car my father bought for me so i left the house with nothing. so i went to meet the pastor whom i gave the documents so i find out that my late father used my name as the next of kins in the fund deposit.

So the pastor took me to the bank to meet the bank director so that i can be able to withdraw money from the fund, But the bank director to me that the fund was deposited in a suspense account that i can not be able to withdraw any money from it untill it is transferred to a foriegn account as was agreed by my late father.

So i sick your assistance to help me transfer this fund to your account . And i want you also to assist me to come over to your country so that you can help me to invest this fund so that i can be able to continue my Education in your country why you will handle the investment untill i am ok with my Educations.

So therefore i am sicking for your assistance to transfer this fund to your country.

Please i will like to ask you this questions.

1) Please can i trust you?
2) whouln't Disapoint me?
3) Will you take me as your Child/brother / sister.
4) Can you be able to take care of me?
5) Can you handle the transfer of this fund ?

If yes please get back to me with your full name and full informations so that i can be able to present it to the bank and also i will give you the contact of the bank and the documents for you to keep with you.

Please reply to this mail if you are ready to help me . But if you are not ready to help me please do not reply to this mail.

May God Bless you as you help an Orphan that is sicking for your help.

>From Lizana Muriel
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