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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: Jojiline Oti <jo_oti2@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: jojilineoti2@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:22:32 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hello Dear One,


Hello Dear One,

Please accept my apology as i know that you will be surprise to receive a letter like this from a stranger like me. I pray that God will give you understanding to read this letter and help me out. I am contacting you with hope that you will help me out of this critical situation. I am MISS JOJILINE OTI the only child of Late MR. NATHANIEL OTI of Cote d'Ivoire. My father was a wealthy dealer of Cocoa and Diamond in my country. He married two wives and my mother was the second. The first wife of my father did not bear any child. After my mother gave birth to me as the first child in the family, then the first wife of my father became jealous of her and finally poisoned my mother to death by food. I was only 2 years old when my mother died and my father got angry and divorced his first wife because she killed my mother. My father took all responsibilities alone and bring me up. I was living comfortable with my father until last year when he died in a car accident with his
business partner on their way for business trip. Since the death of my father, i am living alone here as orphan and have no help. And now my wicked uncle is after me, he wants to kill me to take over my late father's wealth. Because of the situation i decided to run out from the family house and now hiding in a guest lodge in another village in my country for security of my life.

Before the death of my father, he deposited US$7.8M (Seven million eight hundred thousand United States Dollars) with a bank here in my country with my name as next of kin as the only child. The money is deposited in a fixed suspense account and nobody knows about it except me.

Please i need your urgent assistance to transfer the money into your account for investment purpose so that i will come to your country to live and further my education while you invest the money for me. I will need you to stand as my guardian and partner to receive the money from the bank on my behalf because am a little girl and dont know about bank matters. I am willing to give you 15% of the money for your help in the transfer and i will share with you any profit gained in the investment. Please reply and tell me if you can assist me so that i will tell you further detail and then go to the bank to introduce you as my guardian/partner for the transfer of the money into your account. Please reply to my private email address jojilineoti100@yahoo.com
Thanks,
Jojiline Oti.



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