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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: j_elishajeanpierre@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:01:03 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: Reference to you


Dear Leah Brown ,

Permit me to write to you through your electronics contact address. First and foremost,I must to admit, contacting you by this channel in a transaction of such magnitude is not the best but because of the confidential nature of this proposal, that is my reason why I prefer writing to you by e-mail. I am Mr. Jean-Pierre ELISHA,a legal practitioners based in Lome republic of Togo.I was a personal attorney to late Engr. Williams Carravo,a expatriate employee of an American Firm, Cedah Construction Company.

My client and his family lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident on 15th February 2004, along Tema Express Highway in Accra the Economic capital of Ghana.My client were said to be returning from a tourist site hotel, where my client went with his family to spend their valentine/lovers day of 14th February 2004.Since the death of my client, I have investigated even through their local embassy here to locate my client's extended relatives to come and claim his financial estate with a prime bank here in Lome,since his next of Kin who was his only daughter (Nancy Carravo)was among the incident.

My late client,made a numbered of fixed deposit of USD 3.5M.,for 4 years Calendar.This fixed deposit was made on 11th Jan 2004,before his sudden death.From the deposit document in my file,the agreement between the bank and my late client elapsed on 11th Jan. 2008.Few days ago,the bank through their headquarter issued me a mandate notice to provide my late client's next of Kin,as I was privy to his transaction with the bank. Since I received this mandate notice letter,I was so much disturbed on what to do,since all my efforts to locate the true relatives of my late client were all in vain.Will I sit down to watch the bank/ruthless government to confiscate this fund? Whereby, I have in my possession all evidence to put claims on the fund, only to seek for an interesting foreign partner who will assist me to retrieve the fund as the present next of kin to my late client.

Now, I decided to contact you to solicit for your assistance, to use your name and process the claims for our mutual benefit. For your information, as a legal practitioners, I have put in place all plans to make sure this transaction will be perfected legitimately to it successful conclusion,if you can only give me your full hands of co-operation.I believe there will be no excuses for failure.I am ready to give you 35% of the total sum as your compensation towards helping me to retrieve this fund.

Please while replying this mail,kindly give me this information as follows: 1.Your Permanent Address:.........................2.Your Private Tel/Mobile No.: ..................

I wait for your prompt positive response, write to me through this email, but it is very important for you to call me first on my private telephone number for more details, if you really want us to work together before writing an e-mail.

Best regards,
Mr. Jean-Pierre Elisha.
+228-9507614.



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