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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: Barati Parinaz <barati.parinaz4@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: barati.parinaz1@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:54:40 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Hi dear.



Hi dear.

Greetings dear and compliment of the season,i would like to seek your partnership and joint investment partnership with you in your country if you will be willing please, excurse me for infringing into your privacy just that i have no other means of reaching to discuss this privately.

My names are Barati Parinaz,a mixed race of Canadian and Iranian,that is my father Canadian while my mother Iranian .It has not being easy struggling alone on this ,
I am a widow to the Assistant Director of Iran Mines and Metals, Oil, who died in Spain on 20th April 2006,After brief illness.But since his death it has not be easy honestly saying facing pressure of all kind from my brother-in-laws protesting my inheritance right to wealth and properties he entrusted in my care.

But i cannot fight with them being alone,though it is like my husband knew or anticipated what will happen on his absence and confided in me after his death,even if his brother chose to maltreat me ,i should do every thing possible to relocate away from them. And look for reliable God fearing foreign business partner to enter joint venture with some of the fund he deposited in disguised of family valuable in a metallic truck box in diplomatic finance company .The sum in question is fourteen Million United states dollars($14,000,000USD) in the metallic truck .
This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family valuable.

My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy and capable of helping out with my plans of trying to relocate this metallic truck containing this aforementioned fund disguised as family valuable in the metallic truck, from where it is presently deposited in a security company in remote state in Africa .

In fact, since the death of my husband(Avizheh Parinaz) his brothers has been seriously chasing me around with constant treats, trying to suppress me so that they might have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them because they knew that i don't have anyone who will oppose them for maltreating me since I lost my parent 17yrs ago.

They have successfully collected all his properties , yet they never stopped there, they told me to surrender all bank account of my late husband, which I did, but I never disclose to them this deposit with the security company in Abidjan-Cote d'Ivoire, because this is where my future and destiny lies upon.

The family of my late husband never aware of the secret existence of this deposit which he made with the security company and they can never be aware of it. Out of fear of my late husbands family, I decide to look for a trustworthy person who could assist me retrieve this metallic truck containing the fund from the security company on my behalf to your place while i join you later to compensate you with atleast four million united states dollars out of the total fund in the metallic truck . Honestly speaking I consider my situation as a widow and come to my rescue.

I will appreciate you immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hearing from you soon for quick processing and conclusion of this business transaction.Please contact me urgently upon your acceptance so that we can discuss how to go about this transaction speedily and accomplished it. Thanking you in anticipation of your very kind and humane gesture and looking forward to hearing considerably from you.

please I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of the presence of my husband's greedy and wicked relatives presently flock in our home. I don't want them to know about this development to avoid them not knowing that such fund are still in my possession.please i chose to disclose this to you on divine trust and would like you cor response with me on my private email account i did wrote you with to avoid insecurity in our discussion.

Please you should not entertain doubt as all expected of you is just a kind of liaising of the relocation of the metallic truck through diplomatic express shipment to your address nothing much since i have paid in advance for the shipment.
your empathetic is highly solicited

Best regard
Barati Parinaz

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