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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 clement <mary_cle_ma1983@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: mary_cle_mary0@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:35:20 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Good day,

Good day.
God bless you as you read and i hope you are fine,i saw your profile today in my private search when i was looking for someone that can be trusted,so i decided to contact you and i hope you will be able to assist me in this. Please after reading this mail have pity on me.

My name is Miss. mary clement from Cote d'ivoire. I am 21 years old, I amcommunicating with you for the first time and believing that it will lead me to a better relationship between you. I have an inheritance that my late father left for me in the security company, before the death of my father
in a private hospital here in abidjan. He called me on his bed side and told me that he has a box in the security company that is containing $7,000,000. He ask to look for any country of my choice to look for somebody that i will trust and after i prayed i
beleive i can trust you.

I would want to invest it in your country. I want you to stand as my father business partner in claiming the box from the security company here. also in investing the money in any lucrative business and to till help the orphans because i am an orphan and i know is not easy to be in this
condition. I will give you more detail and forward all vital information as soon as I hear from you.

Best Regards.
Miss Mary.





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