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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: Floren Koneal <flokoneal01@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:08:39 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Re:Hello


Hello how are you doing today? my name is Floren Koneal I'm a 19 years old orphan girl from Ivory coast I believe in God that with him all things are possible and love for others. I'm an adopted child of late Chief Jameli Koneal. I never know I was adopted until the sudden death of my beloved adopted parent because I was adopted when I was six or seven months old baby in a motherless home .

Please I need your urgent assistant on relocating to your country for the safety of my life and further my education in one of the high school in your country and be living peacefully, because my adopted parents families came together threatened my life if I did not hand over my adopted parents fixed deposit account documents to them, every since i have ran away from the family house.If ready to assist me from this scenario, please kindly reply me to my new private email for confidential reason so that I can tell you more details of my intention and give explanation here is my email again

thank you and God bless you as you love care for orphan girl like me

with all regards
yours
Miss.Floren Koneal

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