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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: Mrs Jacqueline <jacqueline0710@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Mrs Jacqueline <ctfrance@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:57:41 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Jaqueline: Am heart broken hear me out

My dear,

My name is Jaqueline I contacted you because i am heart broken and i need some one to hear me out, a problem shared is a problem half solved. i never knew my real parents i was brought up in a motherless babies homes in France and i was adopted latter by a good man that is my late father. I was also schooling in France i only visited him during holidays. Suddenly my father was visited by the cold hand of death as a result of his kind of business. He was a politician and was murdered. Right now i am left with no one in my life this is why i contacted you looking for some one that can adopt me and help me to continue my education and represent my diseased father who i love so much. I have been heart broken finding it difficult to eat because right now there is economical crisis in Europe things are not as it use to be before. Right now i have one bridge which i need to cross before i get myself back to the right track this is my reason of contacting
you because i can not do it alone. 

I received a letter from my later father's lawyer after i thought that all hope was lost. He made me to understand that i still have one thing left that is my inheritance left by my father in my name which i was not aware. My father was former minister of Interior in Ivoiry coast he is the man that adopted me late Desirée Tagro. The lawyer invited me to come and claim my fund left for me by my adopted father to the tune of 7.5 million Euros. On my arrival we visited the bank and the bank made me to understand that i need a foreign partner who can stand as my foreign partner to receive the fund for me and i have no one and i can not go back to France because of lack of money so i am soliciting for you just to contact the bank for approval and transfer of the fund into your account and i will come to meet you and to have a news life and complete my education please  i beg you in the name of God to help me. 

This is why i asked you to adopt me as such you will not betray the trust i have in you. I am completely stranded here right now i need your urgent response to give you the details of the bank for you to contact them for immediate transfer of the fund while i come to meet you. I have no one else in my life accept you please i am counting on you to realize this dream. I hope to hear from you. The banker said the transfer can be completed within 7 working days am waiting to hear from you.

May God bless you for your interest in assisting me.

Yours sincerely

Jaqueline

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