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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: Selena Damascus <selenadamascus@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: selendamascuss@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 02:03:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Miss Selena Damascus


From Miss  Selena Damascus

Dearest one,
I hope you will understand the reason why i am contacting you.                       
 
I
am writing this email with due confidence and trust that you will give
it desired attention.I am Selena Damascus 20 yrs old,the only daughter
of late Mr and Mrs John Damascus. My late father was a well known rich
Cocoa farmer and also the former administrator of agricultural sector
here in my country Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire)

And my mother who
died with my two little brothers Kenneth and Anthony in an automobile
accident in the year 1996,as a result of that which made me the only
surviving child of my late parents,
because of that my father loved me to the extent that he can sacrifice
any thing to make me happy.Unfortunately,my father was poisoned to death
by his business associates on one of their executive board meeting,
they poisoned him because of his wealth and his high rate of annual
income and turn-over on the exports he made to America and Europe.

Before
my late father died on Tuesday 11th February 2012, he called me beside
his sick bed in the hospital and told me that it was because of his
success and wealth that he was poisoned by his business colleagues, and
he revealed this secrete to me that he has since made a fixed deposit
of  €5.500.000(Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro) in my name as
the next of kin to the deposited fund.
 
My late father signed an
agreement with the bank that i can not withdraw any amount from the
money unless the money is transfered, and he had instructed the bank to
transfer the money into a
foreign partner's account which shall be provided by me and such a
person should be my guardian and will assist me to invest the fund in a
real estate and hotel management business in his or her country and also
assist me to come to his or her country to continue my education.

Dearest
one,my main motive of contacting you now is to know if you will be
touched and understand that i need your sincere help towards my true
life story  and assist me to transfer the money to your account and also
help me to invest the money in a lucrative business and you will be the
one to take care of the business which shall be established with the
money as i wish to complete my education first. For your own percentage i
will offer you 15% of the total money, not that you don't have such
money but i am giving it to you as a pay back and compensation for your
sincere assistance.

This transaction is genuine and risk free
since i am the original next of kin
to the deposited money. i want you to understand the reason for urgency
in this transaction because as i am writing to you now i am in a local
hotel hiding for my dear life and you are the only person that knows my
were about, please i will want you to keep this transaction
confidentially secrete between i and you alone for my life sake. my
enemies wants to kill me as they killed my late father because they
knows that my late father left enough for me and if they kill me they
will finally succeed with their plans.I wish that this transaction shall
be completed in less than one week, i shall give you all the
informations you will need to transfer the money if you show me your
prompt interest towards my request.
 
I am waiting to hear from you urgently
 
Yours sincerely
Miss Selena Damascus
 
 










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