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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: Jesica Donald <donaldjesica@ymail.com>
Reply-To: jesicatwosisters@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:21:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: serious attention please.



































FROM;MISS JESICA / SISTER.VIRGINIE
ABIDJAN,IVORY COAST,
WEST AFRICA.
Dearest One,
REQUEST TO BE OUR GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP US TO COME OVER TO YOUR COUNTRY:
Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After
going through your profile,permit us to inform you of our desire of
asking you to be our guardian or foster parent to us and then help us out
in what we are about to tell you. I'm Jesica Donald (16) and have an Elder
sister Virginie (18) We are the children of Late Mr. & Mrs. John Donald.
Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Abidjan , the
economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire . He was poisoned to death by his
business associates onone of their outings on a business trip. Our
mother died when we where babies.Before the death of our father on
Sept. 2004 in aprivate hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called us
by his bed side and told us that he has the sum of Eight million two
hundred and thousand United State Dollars USD ($8.200,000) deposited in
a suspense account in one ofthe big banks here in Abidjan. He told us
that he used my sister'sname (Virginie) as the next of Kin in
depositing the money. He then strongly advised us not to seek for
assistance in the investment of them one from his lawyer nor any of his
friend here but to seek for aforeign partner from a country of our
choice (outside our country, CoteD'Ivoire)that willl assist us in the
wise investment of the money.
We have since left the money in the bank with the view of our making use
of it for investment purposes after our education carrier here. But as you
may be already aware by now, our country (Cote D'Ivoire) is presently at
political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part
of the country and making
efforts towards the capture of the commercial center of the country,
Abidjan, where we are now.
For this urgly development in this country,
we have now decided to take quick actions and have this money
transferred out of this country before it is too late to do that. We now
want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real
estate management or hotel management . Because of this we are honorably
seeking your assistance in the following ways: (1) To serve as a guardian
to us and then assistustransfer the money into
your bank account.
(2) To make arrangement for us to come over to your country to further our
education and then settle there parmanently. If you accept to stand as our
guardian orfoster parent to us, we need not
discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as
yours and then assist us invest it.But if you still want a percentage,
we are willing to offer you, 20 % ofthe total money as compensation for
your assistance. Please tell us if you feel the percentage we offered is
not ok by you. As soon as wereceive your concrete assurance to assist
us with our proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, we
will then give the bank your contact information and then tell them to
transfer the money into your account as we want to come over to stay
with you parmanently. The bank will then contact you and communicate
with you on the transfer. You shall then be giving us information on
when the transfer will be over. We shall also send our pictures to you
and shall also need yours too. No matter what your decision
may turn
out to a be, please we beg you to keep this highly secret for our safety,
as we believe that those that killed our Daddy are still after us.
Please reply to us urgently THROUGH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS
BELOW / jesicatwosisters@yahoo.fr <mailto:jesicatwosisters@yahoo.fr>
Thanks and God bless
MISS JESICA. 



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