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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: "jeniferanderson10@cantv.net" <jeniferanderson10@cantv.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:14:58 -0430
Subject: Hello Dear Friend,


Happy new day to you dear,

How are you and other members of your family hope fine? If so thanks be to God. Please may the grace of God and strenght be with you always.My name is Princess Jennifer Anderson . I want to seek your love and care for you to help me come over to your country to start up a new life and investment. I am a kind and God fearing girl of 21 years and only daughter of my father, late Mr.Antony Anderson  a suscessfull business man who has two companies in two different cities in my country Cote D'Ivoire .

Life is now difficult for me now after several attacks by unkown men to shoot me a gun for me to die.Investigations where made and one of them was caught and it happned to be my late fathers manager and my uncle they planed to kill me inother to inherit all the assets and companies.My fathers Muslim lawyer now submitted to me a paticular document of my late fathers money in the bank wort $7.5 million usd and suggested to me to fly away with this money to very far away country and invest the money there and leave a new life for the safety of my life . Please this is urgent I need you to help me and tell me more about your self.

Yours worried friend,
Princess Jennifer Anderson

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