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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: "Linda Lagu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lingina.lagu@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 14:03:07 +0200
Subject: Re: Resp sir

Hello Dearest

Please permit my unsolicited email. It was born out of desperation since i have been a lone without parents or anybody to direct me at this my tender age. My name is Linda Lagu. I am 16 years old. I am from South Sudan. I want you to help me secure a stay in your country. I would want you to be my new guardian. I am now an orphan as a result of the death of my parents and siblings. My parents were victims of the present crisis going on in my country. My parents were brutally killed along side my only brother by the rebel troops that stormed our village. I will say that i was so fortunate to escape death because i was not in the house when the rebels stormed our village. It was a very sad incident and an unbearable lost to me.

Recently I was going through my late father's important documents in his briefcase and i saw a bank document which he used in doing business with one of the banks in Ivory Coast where he was doing cocoa business. The amount in the bank document is three million three hundred thousand dollars which he has in the account with the bank. I managed to escape through road with my late father's briefcase to a Catholic Church here in Ivory Coast were i am presently taking refuge. I have succeeded in locating the bank where my late father deposited the money and have identified my self properly and also informed them about the sad fate my parents had suffered. The bank confirmed the deposit document and said that my late father deposited the money in their bank escrow account. The bank agreed to release the money only if i can bring somebody who can attest and sign for me as my guardian because of my age and limited status.

Right now, i don't wish to continue staying in this part of the world and cannot involve anybody around here because of my security. There is no guarantee of life in this part of the world that is why i searched through your country business directory appendix on the internet for someone who can help me with all sincerity and honesty. I have come across your contact email address on the internet and i decided to contact you to give out my trust to you. It is true that i do not know you in person and we have not seen each other before but i pray that you have it in your heart to assist me with all sincerity and honesty. You will guild me and invest the money and also manage the investment until i am capable. I will also further my college education under your guardianship.

I want to relocate to your country from here since i am now an orphan and can no longer go back to my country. Because of my age and limited status, I have contacted you so that you will help me to relocate to your country from here and also guild me and invest the money properly in any profitable business in your country. I want you to be my guardian and stand as my late father's overseas business partner so that it will be easy for the bank to release and transfer the money to your bank account.

Please if you can assist me to secretly transfer this money to your country and also help me to secure a stay in your country where i can stay under your guardianship to further my education then you can send your contact information that the bank can use to contact you so that i can make your name available to the bank as my late father's overseas business partner and guardian that will attest on my behalf for the release of the money since i am still armature. I am willing to give you any amount which you will wish to have after helping me achieve my dream of relocating to your country with this money. I hope with your adverse experience i can have the money successfully transferred to your country and i will have a better life to live in your country under your guardianship. Thank you and May God bless you and your family as you help me achieve my dream of relocating to your country to start a new life and further my education under your guardianship.

Please, this information should be confidential because of my security and the security of the money.

Your Faithfully
Linda Gina Lagu

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