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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: Lisa Jones <lisa.jones99@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: misslisa_jones122@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 16:23:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From Miss Lisa Jones


>From Miss Lisa Jones
My Dear,

Permit me to inform you my desire of going into business relationship with you, With due respect and humility I write you this letter which I believe you would be of great assistance to me, please I need a trust-worthy person that will help me to transfer my inheritance funds and and to secure it. My name is Miss Lisa Jones I am 20 years old of age girl, the only Daughter of my late Parents Mr and Mrs Benjamin Michael Jones.

My Beloved late father Engr. Benjamin Michael Jones, was a very wealthy Gold and Diamonds Merchant in Monrovia the Gold Capital of republic of Liberia all in West Africa my father was poisoned by his business associates while my mother died when I was little and since after the death of my beloved Mother, my father took me so special because I am his only Daughter.

Before the death of my father on 29Th March 2008 in a hospital here in Cote D'Ivoire, he secretly called me and told me that he has the sum of (USD $5.6 million (FIVE MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS) which he deposited in a bank here in Cote D'ivoire with my name as the next of kin and he gave me the confidential documents of the funds. He also made me understand that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business associates while on a business trip with them and he instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me transfer this money out of this Cote D'Ivoire and invest it for me. My purpose of contacting you is for you to help transfer this money to your country before this peoples who kill my father will kill me too.

Please, in the capacity of the next of kin, I am contacting you with due sense of humanity and responsibility, and with few awareness that you will give it a sympathetic and mutual consideration l hope you will not betray the trust i have on you because this money is my only hope in this life. I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.

(1) To provide a bank account where this money would be transferred to.
(2) To serve as the guardian of this funds and to visit the bank to take transfer of the funds.
(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education, and to secure a residential permit for me in your country.
(4)To provide good investment plans for the fund and to manage the fund for 5 years, during the investment period, only our profit will be shared annually 70% for me, the investor while 30% will be for you the fund manager annually. Moreover, I am willing to offer you 20 % of the total sum as compensation for your effort /input after the successful transfer of this fund to your nominated account overseas before the investments starts. And I have mapped 5% for any expenses that might be incurred during the course of this transaction.

Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within a stipulated period of time you signify your interest to assist me.

Looking forward to hearing from you urgently! Thanks and God bless you.

Sincerely Yours
Miss Lisa Jones.

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