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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: "Jenny Jang" <sales8@poweredchina.com>
Reply-To: "Jenny Jang" <privatetaylor@o2.pl>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:43:24 +0800
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?SGVsbG8gRGVhciw=?=




Hello Dear,
Please Help Me Out
Please permit me to introduce myself, I am Miss Jenny Jang Jang 14 year old female from Jos Plateau State Nigeria, West Africa, I'm the Daughter of Late Chief Dr. Mathew Jang. My late Father was a well-known contractor with the Federal/State Government of Nigeria. He was killed by Boko Haram Terrorist group in a double car bomb blast at terminus market on the 21 of May 2014 along with his personal driver.

I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment which I am receiving from my step mother. She planned to take away all my late father's treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Father because my mother died during child birth and I was left alone with my step mother to take care of me. Meanwhile I wanted to travel to America or Europe to continue my education,

But she hide away my traveling documents, luckily she did not discover where I kept my father's File which contained important documents like will and deposit certificate of my Father's fund which bears  my name as the next of kin to inherit the money inside his international bank account. Now I am presently staying in the Refugee Mission Camp in Port Novo, West Africa. I am seeking from you a long term relationship and investment assistance. My father of blessed memory deposited the sum of US$7.7M (Seven Million Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars)in one of the leading Banks in Port Novo with my name as the next of kin.

Here in Port Novo I have contacted the Bank to clear the deposit but the Branch Manager whom i presented my late father deposit documents wrote me a mail that my refugee status in the country will not allow me operate my late father deposited fund in their Bank despite that I am the rightful  next of kin.

However, the manager of the Bank advised me to provide a foreign trustee who will stand on my behalf for the transfer of the fund into his Bank account. After the death of my parents I have received several maltreatments from my evil stepmother and I am afraid of calling her to inform her about this foreign deposit, she will not offer me anything after the release of the fund because, she has been threaten to kill me to enable her get hold of everything including our family house in Jos.

Following the instruction from the bank, I decide to seek for your help in transferring my inheritance fund into your bank account while I will relocate to your country and continue my studies in a nice university there, these are the major reasons while i contacted you.

Once you indicate your interest to help me I will give you the complete account details and the contact of the Bank where my late beloved father deposited the funds with my name as the next of kin.
Upon completion of the transfer into your bank account, it is my intention to compensate you with 20% out of the total fund after the transfer into your bank account for your assistance and the balance shall be my investment in any profitable venture which you will recommend and supervise for me as I have no idea about foreign investment, waiting on your soonest reply to my proposals.

You can read more about the 21 May Jos blast at the link below:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2634258/Dozens-killed-two-car-bombs-rip-busy-Nigerian-bus-terminal-market-attacks-bearing-hallmarks-Boko-Haram-extremists.html
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/21/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram-reach/
Please kindly respond back with your full contact details to my private email privatetaylor@o2.pl
Thanks in anticipation of your positive response.
Yours sincerely,
Miss. Jenny Jang.


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