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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: carolina daisy <privatelink6@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: carolina daisy <carolina_daisy1@aol.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 19:00:01 +0900 (JST)
Subject: i have been waiting for your response.


Hello my confident, how are you  and your family once again. please i want to confirm if  you received my first letter to you because i have been waiting for your response. my names are  CAROLINA VLADIMIR DAISY as you may know in my first letter to you..  i'm  24 years old  girl still single , a student but not schooling for the moment.

my father is an Ivorian and my mother is from Republic of Togo . my father was  working  with the United Nations while my Mother was  working with the  ministry of  Education , both met and married in united kingdom. that was where i was raised and that was where i started my real life.  i just got admission in Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge before the sudden death of my father.  but after the death of my father we returned to Africa to  take care of my father's  little manufacturing company here in the republic of  Togo. Since then  life has not been easy because of the great illness of my mother.

I have been in search of someone that bears the same “Name” with yours,  the person was my family good friend and so when I saw your email I was pushed to contact you immediately just to see how lucky and best of you assisting me. I'm with my sick mother in the hospital  right now, i can't leave her alone  to go to internet cafe, I'm the only person looking after her.  i can only write to you with the Nurse computer .

my father was poisoned by his business partner who wanted to claim his fund that was the cause of my father's death in one of the private hospital  in my mother's town lome.
Before his sudden death he instructed me and  my mother to make sure that his fund will be transferred to any other country for investment because he don't want people to kill us because of the fund just the same way they killed him. I'm the only daughter and the only kid of my parents.

Am not into any investment  program and i have not  managed  a huge amount of money  or involved in any international transaction for the first time , I do not know about any profitable investment,  i need  your help to receive the fund  there in  your country  for a profitable investment because i want to leave this country and come over to your country  to start my life again  and complete my education. my mother has given me the deposit certificate of the fund which bears my name as the next of kin to the fund. i'm not really sure of her survival from this illness.

This  is my reason of searching for an international partner to help me on this issue because  i'm scared of  what people did to my  father and i want to do the will of my father and obey his advice. Right now ,  life is no more comfortable with me here. i don't want to make mistakes, i want  someone who is capable to handle this fund in a profitable investment till the period i will finish my  school.

i have contacted the financial security company via email  for the  release of the fund , the financial company just wrote me that the enclosed funds  will be on transferred to any country i ask them of my choice.
The financial company needs an international account where the fund can be  transferred. this is the  main reason  of my  contacting you immediately  for assistance base on commission , please my dear tell me on what condition you can be a help to me.
please i need your urgent response so that i can forward  you more information about the fund . i will be waiting for your email. Thanks and remain bless as you come to my aid.

Yours sincerely

Carolina

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