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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: Mary Daniel <mary.danielx@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mary.daniea@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:37:14 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Mary Daniel.


Dearest One,
&nbsp;
This letter is personal, intimate and confidential. Forgive this unusual manner of contacting you, but this is the only option I have.There will absolutely be great doubt and distrust in your heart in respect of my message, coupled with the fact that so many miscreants have taken possession of the Internet to facilitate their nefarious deeds, thereby making it extremely difficult for genuine purposes.There is no other way for me to know whether I will be properly understood,
&nbsp;
I&nbsp;call for business relationship with you.I got your name and contact from&nbsp; Ivoirien charmber of information and I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person that I can do business with and by the recommendation, I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you.
My name is Miss.Mary Daniel the only daughter of late Mr.and Mrs.Christopher Daniel. My father was a very wealth cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast; my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip to France. My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special Before the death of my father on December, 2007 in a private hospital herein Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Seven Million&nbsp;Five hundred thousand United State Dollars.left in one of the leading Bank in ivory coast, that he used my name as his only Daughter for the next of Kin in deposited of the fund.
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He also explained to me that it was because of&nbsp;his wealth that he was poisoned by his
business associates. As I am only 19 years old I really need your immediate assistance due to the pressure from my late fathers relations, they have taken away all of my father's properties left behind trying to kill me in other to take hold of everything that my late belove father had my happiness is that the certificate of deposit of this fund is with me intact.The only thing I have is this fund that deposited in&nbsp;a Bank here in Ivory Coast&nbsp;I need your immediate assistance to help me receive this fund in your own peacefully country for me will prepare my travel papers to come and join you over there in your own peaceful country while you take absolute care of this money by channel it in a very good profitable business investment, such as real estate management or hotel management.If there is any other profitable business you know you can easly tell me, that is the most important reason while i get contact with you.
&nbsp;
Dear, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
1. Can you honestly help me as you would do to your own relation?
2 To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only&nbsp;19 years old.
3 To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country.
Please consider this and get back to me
&nbsp;
Thanks.
&nbsp;
Best regards,
Mary Daniel.

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