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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: Josephine Depardieu <josephinedepardieu19@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:34:20 +0200
Subject: A young girl of 19 years old ask for your help dear Sir/Madam.

Good Day Dearest

Please Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business
relationship with you, my name is Josephine Depardieu, the only adopted
daughter as the only child of late Mr.Jeremy Depardieu, I am 19 years old
girl, My adopted father was the Director of Gold and Cotton products
exportation in Burkina Faso a country situated in West Africa.

Before the death of my adopted father on 18th February 2011, he deposited
the sum of ($879,000 Euros) (Eight Hundred and Seventy-Nine Thousand
Euros), in one of the Insurance Company here in Burkina Faso, and he
instructed me during the moment when he was on his sick bed to look for a
foreign partner, a stranger who is not from this country Burkina Faso who
will help me and transfer this money out of this country to his or her
country and invest it for me, and the person must agreed to help me
relocate to his or her country and put me in a best university in his or
her country, and he let me understand why is telling me all this, it was
due to his position in Government that make his Government associates
planned and poisoned him when they were on a business trip to France.

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help me and transfer the money
into your bank account, because as stated in the will of my father as
explain by his lawyer, that the fund cannot be release to me, unless I
provide to the Insurance Company management a trustee who can stand as my
guardian and ready to handle the fund for me and take good care of me and
my education.

I hope you will not betray the trust I have on you? though, I don't know
you and you also don't know me but I assure you that you will never regret
in helping me to relocate to your country, I want you to understand that,
this money is my only hope in life, and if you are agreed to help me to
come to your country to further my education at the best University over
there, and when the fund will successful transfer into your bank account or
you should open a new bank account for more security and when the fund has
been transferred successfully, I will compensate you with 30% of this money
for your kind assistance to me, and after that, you shall invest my 70% of
the money in a good business which shall be under your control till i
finished my study at the University in your country.

I assured you that there is No Risk involved in this money is an
inheritance from my late father,and legal documents that back up the fund
will be obtain in your name as the beneficiary and as the owner of the
fund, therefore, when I will receive your reply, I will forward to you my
passport copy and pictures, and my telephone number.

please reply to my private email address as follow for more confidential: (
josephinedepardieu@hotmail.fr)

I am waiting for your reply.

Yours Sincerely.

Miss. Josephine Depardieu.

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