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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: joce mark <joce_mark@voila.fr>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:27:22 +0400
Subject: FROM,JOCE MARK


Dear Respectful One,
My name is Mark Joce My Younger Brother is Justice mark we from Liberia, Please go through below Our ​​mail to see if you can Assist for Our mutual benefit, Our late Father was a cocoa and gold Business nam, He died in motor accident with our mother one week after his trip from Cote d 'Ivoire to negotiate on a cocoa business he wanted to invest in. our mother died instantly and our father followed up five days after in the hospital, (May there soul rest in perfect peace) Before the death of our father, he disclosed with me about sum of ($ 10, 500,000 USD) Ten million five hundred thousand united states dollars, he deposited in a Bank with the name of my younger Brother as next of kin, he wanted to invested this money into Hotel Industries And Real Estate Building Management outside Africa, but we did not contact you specifically for the Hotel and real Estate Investment Purposes May be is not your line, but Only to guide us in any foreign lucrative Business of your Choice. We are novice in terms of Business and can not be Able to handle Investment of this money by ourselves and do not want to Involve Our ​​Relatives as instructed by our late father, that is why we solicit for your assistance to guard us invest this money as a partner under your care. If we happen to do this together, before any thing is done with the money, I and my Brother will give you 10% of the total money as compensation for your assistance, we look forward to hear from you for more details if you are willing and Able to handle this.
Best Regards.Joce and Justice

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