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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: <jericho50502000@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: j_erichonyekri@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:56:15 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Jericho Onyekri

From Jericho Onyekri.
From :Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire.

Greeting,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since i can not see you face to face.I Being the only son of my father, (Late Onyekri Abraham from Zulu in the Republic of South Africa) I am 22 years old. My father was a limited liability Diamond and Gold, Cocoa, merchant before his
death, precisely a week after his return from Ivory Coast where he went to negotiate for a Diamond and Gold, Cocoa business. He died as a result of a car accident, (may his soul rest in peace) but before he died, as if he knew He disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of ($5,500,000) Five
million, five hundred thousand united state dollars in a private security company in Ivory coast, that the money was meant from the Diamond and Gold, Cocoa business he wanted to establish in Abidjan. Although according to my father he deposited the money a private security company, but decleard
it as Artcraft He gave me,

(1) deposit certificates,
(2) Reciepts of payments,
(3) Agreement papers, so that i can retrieve this funds.

I have arrived in Abidjan (Ivory coast) thank God i have been able to locate the security company and comfirmed the item.Now with most honest and confidentiality i solicite ask for your assistance to retrieve and move this funds into an account in abroad so that we would invest it in any
lucrative business which you would introduce me into over there as you can see, this money is my only hope in life, so i would like to invest it wisely.

I am waiting for your response so that we will discuss the modality of this transaction. Mean while i prepared to offer you 10% of this total sum for your kind assistance immediately we clearred and move the fund into your account.

Thank you and may God bless us all,

Jericho Onyekri



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