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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: jennifer abend <jeiaben19@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jennifer1abend@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:38:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Miss: Jennifer Abend


>From Miss: Jennifer Abend Accra, Ghana.Good day and how are you today together with your family, how are you today together with yourfamily? I hope fine? Please look not unto race or religion, because this has been problem facingthe world as a whole. please do Permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be aguardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I'm JenniferN Abend (17years old) from Cote d'Ivoire, and the only child of Late Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Abend. Myfather 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 May. 2006 in a privatehospital there in Cote d'Ivoire, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he hasthe sum of Eight million five hundred and fifthy 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) asthe next of Kin to deposit the money. He then strongly advised me NOT to seek for assistance inthe investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreignpartner from any country of my choice (outside my country,Cote d'Ivoire ) that will assist me inthe wise investment of the money.I have since left the money in the security company, with theview of making use of it for investment purposes after my educational carrier. But as you may bealready 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 towardsthe 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 totake quick actions and have this money retrieved out of the country Ghana. I am presently inGhana now, my
uncles have collected all my fathers properties saying that i am a female childthat 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 forinvestment purpose like real estate management or hotel management Because of this i am honorablyseeking your assistance in the following ways:(1) To be my guardian and then assist me financialy to see that this money is retrieve from thesecurity company.(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and thensettle there parmanently.I am willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Pleaselet me know if you feel the percentage i offered is not ok by you.As soon as i recieve your fullassurance 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, hetold me that he made them to understand that the contents of the TWO trunk Boxes contains somefamily goods such as art cast.I shall also send my picture to you and shall also need yours too.Thanks and God bless you.Regards,Miss. Jennifer

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