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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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Fraud email example:

From: jane_kamaraa@lasguias.com
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:49:01 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Miss Jane Kamara.

>From Miss Jane Kamara.
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
West Africa.
Avenue 12 Rue Reine Abla Poku,
12 Bp 7854 Abj 12, Cote D'Ivoire.
Email:: jane_kamaramj@yahoo.co.uk

Dearest one,
It is my pleasure to write you after consideration, since I can not be
able to see you face to face, at first, please I need your help. I am
Miss Miss Jane Kamara. the only Daughter of late Mr & Mrs Richard Kamara,
from Cote D'Ivoire. (I am 22years of age.) My father was a liability
Cocoa and Gold merchant in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire before his untimely
death. After his business trip to Tunisia, to nagociate on a cocoa and
gold business he wanted to invest in Tunisia, a week after he came back
from Tunisia, he got an accident with my mother of which my mother died
instantly but my father died five days after in a private hospital. On
that faithful afternoon, I didn t know that my father was going to leave
me after I had earlier lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost,
it was as if he knew he was going to die. He my father, (MAY HIS SOUL
REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he called me to his bed side and told me that he
deposited the sum of ($12,500,000.00) Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand
US Dollars in a bank here in Cote D'Ivoire.

That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold business he wanted to
establish in Tunisia, according to my father he deposited the money in a
fixed suspense account using my name as the next of kin, He instructed me
to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time
investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating the deposit documents
and the bank where this money is here in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire. Due to
the stuation i am in my country Cote D'Ivoire I am now seeking for your
assistance to help me transfer this money out from my country Cote
D'Ivoire to your account abroad so that we should invest it in any
meaningful and lucrative business in your country because this is my only
hope in life. I am willing to offer you 15% of the total fund if only you
can help me out of my present predicame.

I seek your assistance in the follwing ways:
(1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be transfered into.
(2.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your country after the
successful transfering of this money into your account, to come and
further my education.
(3.) To help invest this money in a profitable business since I am only
22yrs of age and do not know much about business.
(4) To sponsor me transfer this money into your account,
(5). I want you to promise me that you are not going to betray me after
the money gets into your account.

The worst part of it is that my uncle is trying to kill me over this money
because I refused to hand him over the documents covering this money, He
has sold all my father's landed properties including his cars which
rightful belong to me and now he want me to hand over the banking document
of my father in my possesion which I refused. Now he said that he will
have this money by all means even if it means killing me, so because of
this I ran away from home and hide in a hotel,pending when this money will
be transfered so that I can leave the country for my safty, Please reply
me through this my yahoo private mail :::( jane_kamaramj@yahoo.co.uk ) reply
me here please.

Thank's and God bless you.
Yours sincerely,
Jane Kamara.




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