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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: Jennifer Edmond <jenniferedmond01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jenni.edmond@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 03:28:07 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: seek for your assistance




seek for your assistance



Good day,



I' am miss Jennifer Edmond i am 23 years old girl the only daughter of Dr Michael Edmond my father was a well politician at the regime of president Laurent Gbagbo . He reside in Abidjan before he was shot to death by current president Alassane Ouattara forces during the crisis because my late father was a full supporter of formal president Laurent Gbagbo, It was only me that is alive now and i managed to make my way to the next city, i am living in the missionary home here in Bourke.



Since I came to this missionary home , It,s just like some one staying in the prison and I hope by God's grace, I will come out here soon.I do not have any relatives now whom I can go to as all my relatives ran away in the middle of the war.





The only person I have now is Rev.Godwin who is the pastor here in the missionary home, he has been very nice to me since I came here, but I am not living with him rather I live in the female's hostel because the camp have two hostels one for men the other for women. if you wish to speak with me on phone i will send you his phone number, when you call, tell him that you want to speak with me, so that he will send for me in the hostel.



I do not have any right or privilege to anything be it money or whatever because of the situation that i am into. I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the tragic incident that led to the death of my parents took place.



Please listen to this, I have my late father's deposit documents papers here with me which I will send to you later, because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading bank in my country, which he used my name as the next of kin, is the amount ($ 10.5M Five Million one Hundred Thousand Dollars).



So I will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from it you can send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you.



I kept this secret to people in the missionary home here, the only person that knows about it is the Reverend because he is like a father to me. So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and do not tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and if the money gets people to know about it.



my dear, I will like you to send me all the under-mentioned particulars, for me to know more about you, and know whom I am dealing with. Below here is what I need from you so that I can send you the bank information:



Your Full Name:

Phone number :

Country and City:

Age:

Occupation:



Remember, I am giving you all this information due to the trust



I hope that You are a nice person, I love to meet you very soon.Have a nice day and think about me.



Remember age does not mean anything between us all we need is honest,trust-worthy and good caring.



Yours Sincerely

Jennifer Edmond

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