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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: "Dale Bellamy" (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:12:38 +0100
Subject: meeting with you

GHello and good day,





I am Jessica Jones, staff of the United Nations (UN). I know that this mail will be of great surprise to you. I got your e-mail address from my search for a partner who will work with me.



In recent times, there have been conflicts all over the world especially in the Middle East, which has been of top concern to the UN. I happen to be one of the officials assigned to Iraq. I also played a great part in seeing that Afghanistan is been rebuilt and that casualties, especially children are well taken care of. During this period, I was able to secure some amount of money amounting to Thirty Million United State Dollars ($30M), which was moved to Europe from companies that I assisted to secure contract from United Nations Food and Drug for Oil Program in Iraqi. Moving this fund was easy because of the connections my partners had. Now that things have settled, I want to move the money out of where it was deposited for safekeeping in your name.



I am contacting you to work with me because of my status as a public office holder and cannot do it alone. The presence and participation of a neutral person is needed to achieve this transaction hence my contacting you. Note that all the relevant documents will be in place for this transaction to be hitch free. For your participation, you will be getting 20% of the total sum.



This transaction will take not more than fourteen (14) banking/working days to be finalized from the day of commencement. Treat with top secrecy, as we will not want a blackmail or media scandal. You are the only person I contacted for this transaction and will hope to get your reply ASAP for further correspondence via my Private email (jessi-jones1@hotmail.com).



Yours faithfully,




Jessica Jones

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