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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: evejms <i.yoe@aol.com>
Reply-To: evejms <evejems1@gmx.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:23:33 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Greetings From Jan And Eve


Greetings From Jan And Eve
 
I'm Eve Raymond, nineteen years old and my brother is Jan Raymond of age
seventeen years we are the children of late Dr.James Raymond, our
Father was a wealthy heir apparent to family business. He was poisoned
by unknown family member who want to take over the family business
empire, according to the laboratory result, he was given a poisoned
orange juice, unfortunately all the effort to save his life failed as
his organs was badly damage and he died.
 
Before he left to hospital for treatment, he told me where to find a
document of an investment deposit sum of (Five million, two hundred
thousand united state dollars) in the bank and warn that we should be
careful encase anything happen to him as if he knew he was going to die.
They have succeeded to kill him after several failed attempt since my
father married my late mother who was a Muslim.
My father told me and my brother a lot about the family empire i being
the eldest of his children my late father loved me like i was a son to
him, but i have been on the sick am currently in the hospital receiving
treatment for my illness, am suffering from Congenital heart disease. my
brother Jan the only family i have now what can i do without him he is
the only one that have access to my email box. Truly, we don't know you
but considering our situation, we want to rely on your assistance to get
the money transfer to you for investment in your country on our behalf
and help us to come to your country to relocate and establish under your
care We pray reading from you soon.
Respectfully
Yours Eve and Jan

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