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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: janet hillc2 <janethillc2@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 18:03:07 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Urgents Reply ????




Dear,
Please, i am contacting you for this great bussiness transaction, am so happy to contact you because i know that this transaction will also favore you and i am willing to compesate you 20% after the confirmation of this money into the private account which you are going to provide for this transaction.

i hope you are fine, however my name is Janet hill.
i am 22 years old from cote divoire West African.

Please my late father"s was Attack through Rebel just because of the crisis that happen here in our country in village call buakke. at the point of the death of my late father"s at the hospital my late father"s started looking at my and started crying and told me that, are should try to report in a prime back here that he deposited US$10, 500, 000 in fix suspence account here as the next of kin.

Now, i have present my self at the bank as the beneficiary to the money at the bank. now the bank have set up to transfer the money BUT i dont want to invest the money here in African. that is why i need your help to stand for me as the beneficiary so that the bank can transfer the money into the private account of your choice which you are going to provide to the bank here.

Please, i am crying as am sending you this message because i know that i will never see my parent again in my life.

i am here with the certifcate of the deposit of the money with the contact of the bank and i have already introduce you to the bank as the beneficiary and the bank director told me that, their bank will give you more information on how the transfer will be taking place to your account as soon as the hear from you.

Thanks for your understanding and for your care.
i will wait to hear from you Urgent.
Best regards
Janet hill.



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