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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: "Mirian H. Alexander" <mirian_hesua200@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: mis.mirian19@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 05:01:03 +0900 (JST)
Subject: My Dearest One,

My Dearest One,

Good day, my name is Mirian Alexander, the only Daughter of late Mr.and Mrs. Hesua Alexander, I am a Sierra Leone i am now living in Abijan Cote'd ivoire since my late father died, I need your assistance so dearly, if you are listening on international news about Africa you might have hear about
political crisis that is going on in my country, My father was a reputable business man during his day he was into exportation of Cocoa.

It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously during one of his business trips abroad on the 13th June 2006. Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of mine who travelled with him at that time. But God knows the truth! My mother died when I
was just 13yrs old, and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on june 2006, he called me and informed me that he has the sum of Five Million Two Hundred thousand United State Dollars.(USD$5,200,000.00) in a metallic box with some Family valuables in it, he
deposited it in a private security company here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire and he told me that he did not discuss the content of the box to the security company director because he deposited the box as a family treasures and valuables.He did that for security purpose. He further told me that he
deposited this consignment in my name as the next of kin, and i have all the necessary documents regarding to this deposit with the security company but i do not know what to do to retrive it.

I am 19 years old and i am still in Secondry school and really don't know what to do, i am living in a Refugee Camp here. Now i want an honest partner overseas whom i will transfer and invest this Fund with his assistance and after the transaction i will come and resident permanently in your
country till such a time that it will be convinient for me to return back home if I so desire, This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis between our Gov, and rebels in Sierra Leone. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life. I
also want to invest the fund under your care because I do not have a business ideas.

I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards. Your suggestions and ideas to me will be highly regarded.
Please, Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible so that i will give you all detail about this deposit. I believe that this transfer will only take us 7 day if we directly reach in contact with the deposit company. Thank you so much and God bless with you, i wait for your response.


Best Regard
Miss.Mirian Alexander




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