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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: Nadia Jimmy <angel1991@4email.net>
Reply-To: nadia_j2012@voila.fr
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 00:37:47 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: please help me






Dearest
I am Miss. Nadia jimmy, am 20 years old Medical student, in University of Sudan . I am the only child of my father of a blessed memory by name Late Mr. Jimmy Lemi Milla was the rural development minister in Sudan . You can read more about my father death in the BBC news below website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12403620

I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment am receiving from my step mother whom in partnership with my father only brother has taken away all my fathers treasury and assets since the unexpected death of my Father and also refused me access to everything and hid my international passport and other valuable traveling documents, luckily to me she couldn't discover about a secret deposit of $4.5m my late father made with a bank when I traveled with him to Burkina-Faso on my 18 years which my name was used as next of kin and signed which is the reason why I followed my father to Burkina-Faso. Due to the maltreatment am receiving since the death of my father I managed to escape to Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso through road, and am now seeking hiding in a private charity organization under St Johns Catholic Church here in Burkina-Faso.

I am in search of an honest and reliable person who will help to relocate me in any of the western or any other place in the world, for a better life and to continue my studies, I have chosen to contact you after getting your email through a database, and I believe you are a reliable person who will not let me down or betray my trust, I know you may wonder why I am telling you about all this, even without seeing or knowing you fully well, really something in me tells me that you are a good person and I guess I am not wrong as I have no choice. 

Briefly, I will like to disclose little more about myself to you and see if you can help me to relocate to your country so as to continue with my studies and have a new life, and please this is a little secret and I plead with you to keep it to yourself alone until everything is properly arranged and executed, then I will come over to join you in your country. I have the sum of $4.5Million as an inheritance from my late father which I will like to invest in your country with your help and am ready to give you 25% of the money as thanking gift for your assistance after you have helped me to receive the money and relocate to your country. I want you to understand that I will not be able to make this claim because of my refugee status.

This fund is deposited in my late father's bank account with one of the banks here in Burkina-Faso and I will personal visit the bank to sign and instruct them to transfer the money to your account before I come over to join you in your country, I need your urgent answer of your ability to handle this for me so that I will visit the bank to submit your account and instruct them to transfer the money to you immediately because I want to leave this refugee camp as soon as possible, life here is to me a hell, no love, no affection and no amenities, more importantly, I love my studies and here nothing is happening and people here are not friendly, I am really suffering in this place, it is too painful, but I hope with your help to transferring the fund in your account, I will have a better life to live so kindly let me know your readiness to help me and I promise to always be nice and faithful I am waiting for your urgent response.

Yours Sincerely,
Miss Nadia Jimmy

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