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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: Nonda Julia <jullybeko33@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: nondajuliana@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:59:15 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Private message

I ran out of my country Kenya because of the recent uprising in politics that led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people including my father who was a campain manager to an opposition party, my mother was raped by the hoodloms that killed my father.

My late father before his death was the Finance director of a finance company and he deposited the trunk box of money totalled $4.5 Million in a security vault company here in Abidjan, Ivory Coast before the crises of the just ended presidential election, He was killed after 3 days and my mother
was raped and rushed to the hospital where she later died and she also told me that it was because of the fund that my father was killed, I was lucky because i was in hostel in school and when the news came to me, I have to rush home.

After the burial of my parents, I came to this country where the trunk box containing the money is deposited, I came to this country as a refugee, at the moment I am in the refugee camp under the care of a pastor of a church here, he and his wife has been so caring to me and visits me every 2
days.

Please I want you to receive this fund on my behalf so that I can relocate to your country to continue my education. I am the only one left in my family as my parents are dead and this fund is the only hope of my life. All I need from you is to help me to retrieve the box which contains the money
from the security vault company, open a bank account to transfer the fund and I will come over to your country to start a new life.

Please send a reply for your concern. Please send your response to my private email address (nondajuliana@yahoo.fr).

Your sister,

Julia.




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