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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: Alice John Paul <alicejohnpaul@yandex.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:34:41 -0700
Subject: My Dear, i need your help for business assistant,

Good day My Dear,


Dear, I am writing this mail to you with profound respect and humble
submission, I beg to state the following few lines for your kind
consideration. I hope you will spare some of your valuable minutes to
read the following appeal with sympathetic mind. it is my pleasure to
contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your
country with your help. Although we have not met with before I must
confess that it is with great hope, joy and enthusiasm to write you this
mail and I believe byp the faith that it must surely find you in good
condition of health. My name is Alice John Paul Oulu 24 years old female
from the Republic of Kenya, the daughter of Late Barrister, John Paul
Oulu. My late father was a Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist who
was the Chief Executive Officer and Communications and Advocacy Officer
of the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic Kenya (OFFLACK). My Father
was brutally shot dead on Thursday 5Th March 2009 after a government
spokesman accused their group of aiding a criminal gang. What led to the
cold blood killing is still unclear but I know that my father life was
the target. You can read more about my father on the link
below.http://www.fidh.org/en/africa/kenya/Kenya-Assassination-of-Messrs

After
the death of my beloved father my wicked step mother along with my
uncles team together and sold everything that my late father had and
share the money within themselves, I lost my mother long time ago, and
since then, my father loved me so dearly at my tender age may he rest in
peace and may the great God give him a safe entry in Paradise Amen.
Before the death of my father, he told me that he made a fixed deposit
of the sum of Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars
($8.500.000.00) in one of the Banks here in Burkina Faso, with my name
as his next of kin, which I confirmed his statement positively from the
bank. But on my arrival to the Bank to withdraw the fund, the Bank
foreign Operation Department Director whom I meet in person told me that
my father instruction to their bank is that the fund would only be
release to me when I am married or present a trustee/partner who will
help me and invest the fund overseas after the transfer, and the bank
ask me to go and look for a foreign partner who will be representing me
as my legal appointed trustee and present beneficiary.

Therefore
my dear, I am soliciting and pleading for your help for transferring of
my inheritance fund into your bank account and investment assistance in
your Country as my legal appointed trustee as the bank mentioned and it
will be my intention to compensate you with 40% of the total fund for
your services and help then the balance shall be my capital in your
establishment which you are going to establish there in your country or
position as my trustee and manger. I have suffered lots of set back as a
result of my parents death. I left Kenya, because of incessant family
problem. Presently, I am currently residing in Christ De King Refugee
camp here in Ouagadougou Capital city of Burkina Faso. Hence, I want to
settle in your country to further my education and spend the rest of my
life. Please consider my request as my life is being hugely affected.

Thanking you a lot of your quick response. receiving your acceptance mail to help me out.

Yours Sincerely Alice John Paul.

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