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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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Fraud email example:

From: David Ackerman <davidackerman00@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:28:18 +0100
Subject: PEASE HELP ME FROM JENNIFER AMINA.

Jennifer Amina.Good Day.
FROM Jennifer Amina.
My E-mail: syjenniferaminas@yahoo.com.hk

With tears rolling down my eyes and with total submission to the will
of God Allah, I Choose this means to communicate you because I am sure
I will get in contact with the right person that will be honest to me.

My name is Jennifer Amina, I am 22 years old girl, and I am from
Damascus Syria. I am studying nursing science in the university of
Damascus, before the war started in Syria. The war in my country Syria
has taken many lives, and rendered many people homeless, I am just a
refugee now. Its so sad that one afternoon I came back home, and see
my fathers house destroyed by bomb by the rebels, and my family were
inside the house when this happened, I lost my two brothers and my
father and mother. Since all my family members has died in war, I see
no reason to live and enjoy my life again. My father was murdered with
my mother at the same day.

I truly need your help because I discovered that my father deposited
some money in a bank in London and used me as the next of kin, and I
have been looking for a way to receive the fund from the bank in
London. Because of my current situation, I contacted you to help me
and sponsor me to receive GBP. £.2.000.000.00 Two million great
British pounds sterling , which my father deposited with a bank in
London United kingdom, and the bank has sent me an E-mail yesterday
that I should come and claim the money because I am the only surviving
person in my family.

You should click here for more information's about the Syria war:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/2013811144629632891.html

I suggest that when you receive the money with your bank account, you
will take 40% forty percent of the money for helping me, then you
advise me on how to invest the remaining 60% sixty percent in your
country, because the money will be in your bank account.

Please help me and receive this money, and I will come to your country
and live with you. I am homeless now, and i manage to get access to
internet, no phones network. I am in pains, please I need your urgent
help.

My last prayer is that may the soul of my family members rest in
peace, and May they rest in the bosom of God.

Please suggest for me, will you like to receive the fund in your
country, then I will join you in your country, or will you want to
finance me to receive the money then I will join you in your country
also.

You should contact me on my E-mail: syjenniferaminas@yahoo.com.hk

Kindly contact me with my E-mail at: syjenniferaminas@yahoo.com.hk for
more details.

May God bless you and your family !

From:
Jennifer Amina.

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