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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: kim barbara <kimbarbara29@jagudia.com>
Reply-To: kkim3260@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 07:13:10 -0800
Subject: Important Message



--
Hello Dear

I know this mail will come to you as a surprise but am sure is by grace
of God that you are reading this mail.

I am Kim Barbara 23 years old girl from the Republic of Ivory Coast, I
lost my parent
in a plane crash at the very young age of 8, and being the only child, I
have neither

brothers nor sisters. I was a primary 3 student before the ugly
incident that took the
life of my parents occurred, since then I've been passing through a very
difficult and

painful period in my life.

It was Rev Father Sylvan DAMOUE who is in charge of our orphanage
home here in the city of Abidjan, that advised me to look for a contact
that
will help me out of my predicament through the Internet and that is the
reason
i am making this contact with you

With all due respect I write you this letter which I believe you
might be of great assistance to me. I want you to help me invest my
inherited fund ($5,500.000.00) Five Million Five Hundred Thousand US
Dollars into a profitable business in your country as my guardian and
foreign partner

I will give you more details once you reply my message,
I will be glad if you can help me to invest in a profitable venture.
for your help you are entitled to 3% of the total fund and
we shall both share total annual profit of any investment made.
I am thinking of investing into any of these areas like
(REAL ESTATE, 5 STAR HOTEL, TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATION,
and AGRICULTURE, TEXTILE or any suggestion you may have)

Your suggestion and idea will be fine for me. I demand you treat
this letter very confidential.

I will give you full details of the fund as soon as
I receive your sincere reply.

Waiting for your soonest response

Thanks in advance

Kim.

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