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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: JANE KAMARA <jane_kamarai9@msn.com>
Reply-To: <jane_kamara0f@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:52:13 +0000
Subject: From Miss Jane Kamara.



From Miss Jane Kamara.
Abidjan, Cote
D'Ivoire.
West Africa.

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 Jane Kamara. the only Daughter of late Mr 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 fail to sick and died
five days after in a private hospital. On that faithful afternoon, I didn’t t
know that my father was going to leave me after I had earlier lost my mother
when I was a baby, 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 ($6,700,000.00) Six
Million Seven 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 war 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 following ways:


(1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be
transferred into.

(2.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your
country after the successful transferring 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 possession 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
coupled with the political crisis in our country now, I ran away from home and
hide in a hotel, pending when this money will be transferred so that I can leave
the country for my safty.

Please reply me so that i will give you more
details.


Thanks and be bless.
Yours sincerely,
Jane

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