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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: Mercy Jacob <mercy.jacob47@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: mercy.jacob40@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:38:14 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello dear friend,




Hello Dear



How are you today, l hope you are fine. My day is very boring over here in Dakar Senegal . ln this Church Camp we find it hard to go out because we are not allowed to do so, its just like one staying in the prison and l hope by God's grace of God l will come out here soon. I don't have any relatives now that i can go to, all my relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person i have now is Rev"father(Dickson Peter). Pascal who is the Reverend pastor of the (Christ the king of Churches) here in the Church Camp he has been very good to me since l came here but l am not living with him rather l am living in the women's hostel because the Church Camp have two hostels one for men the other for women. The Pastor's Tel number is ( 00221-764937951 )

if you call and tell him that you want to speak with me he will send for me



As a Church Camp here i don't have any right or privilege to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country. I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place. please l would like you to know that l have my late father's deposit certificate of account here with me which l will like to send to you to assist me,because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in the Bank which he used my name as the next of kin. The amount in question is $5.9(Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand US Dollars).



So l will like you to assist me transfer this money to your account and from it you will send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you. I can't withdraw the money my self due to my Church Camp statues here in this country which does not permit me to, rather the money can't be transfered in senegal where i am in Church Camp statues. I want you to send me your contact informations such as your



(1)your Full name ................,

(2)your country ...............Zip code.....................,

(3)your Telephone ................,

(4)your Home_Address ..........

(5)your Officer Address......................

(6)your Occupation ...............,

(7)your Status ...................,

(8)your Age ......................,

(9)your photo ....................,



I have got in touch with the bank and made them to know about my plans to withdraw this money, l also got them aware of the death of my father and they have acknowledged it with all there confirmation. However, they advise me to get in touch with a very responsible person who will stand on my behalf and my trustee as regards to this money since l am presently of Church Camp status over here and wouldn't be permitted to handle this amount of money, they also let me know about the bond which they signed with my father that they money will be handled to me in bulk amount which means that l should decide on if l should continue with the bank or not.



I just have to let you know about this so that you can assist me to be my trustee on this money. like l said you can call me because l have alot to tell you.l kept this secret to people in the camp here the only person that knows about it is the Reverend because he is like a father to me. Have a nice time and think about me.

l hope to hear from you

soonest. l love you.

Yours for ever in love.

Miss Mercy Jacob,

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