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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: Joyce Martins <mrshelen201@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: angelsmiles@hotmail.fr
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:57:48 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Greetings


Greetings,
I sat my apology intruding into your privacy.I am Miss Joyce Martins from Ivory Coast. I am 18 years old, the only surviving child of my Late parents Mr & Mrs Solomon Martins .I want to ask for your help.I lost my mother at the age of 10 and my father was poisoned to death during his visit to our home town for a family meeting 20 February 2007. Before the death of my late father he told me that he deposited the sum of 2.6 usd (Two Million Six hundred thousand united states dollars) in a Security Company here in Ivory Coast of which my name was used as the next of kin . He also explained to me that it was because of sucess in business and his wealth that he was poisoned to death by his jealousy uncle, to prove it all, six months after my Father's death his wicked uncke sold most of my late father's properties including our family house.Now due to the the reason behind my parents death I will not wish to stay here again for now. Papa has 2 three story buildings in the
city of Buoake and a cocoa plantation in our village from where he made his money both as as producer and a produce buyer after his retirement from government as the Director General in Ministry of Agriculture but all has been taken over by my late uncle who told me that if i should ask of my late father's properties again he will use his witch craft to render me useless and make sure that he will infest me with a disease which I will never recover in life again. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life and I wished to stay under your care with your advise please,again It is the fear of betrayal from anyone around me here that confirms my decision to contact a neutral individual like you. I am in a sincere need of your humble assistance to help me transfer this money to your country so that I can join you to continue my education which is very important to me and also you can help me in investing the fund in a good and moving business in your country.
I will give you more details upon your immediate reply.

Your Faithfully,
Miss Joyce Martins.

Please I am left alone in this world now The death of my parents has now made me an orphan, Please I plead to you adopt me as your daugther and render you help I promise never to dissappoint you.Write me on my email ( angelsmiles@hotmail.fr ).Let my cry for help touch you Please I still promise never to disappoint you.


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