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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: Celine Karman <bibolletchristine@hotmail.fr>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:16:53 +0100
Subject: RE: Thank You For Your Reply


Hello Dear

I have always wish to find a good friend of your personality who can be trusted.
Please
permit me to introduce myself to you, my names are Miss. Celine Karman,
25 year old female from Southern Sudan in Africa. the only Daughter of
Late Dr. Jones Karman who was the former Minister for SPLA Affairs and
Special Adviser to President Salva Kiir of South Sudan for
Decentralization. I am constrained to contact you because of the trait
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 past away at my age of 12
and ever that time my father was taking very good care of me till his
death.

After numerous mistreatment i realizes my wicked
stepmother has taking all the industries and want me dead because i am
the only child of my late father I wanted to travel to Europe But she
hide away my traveling documents, luckily she did not discover where I
kept my father's File which contained important deposit documents
certificate of my Father's fund which bears my name as the next of kin
to inherit the sum $7.5Million
Dollars with this account. I manage to escape to the nearest country
called Abidjan, Ivory Coast, were i am living in Roman Catholic quarters
as a refugee, so please i want you to take me as you take your own
blood sister and help me out urgently because my life is in danger this
place just like one staying in the prison i hope by God Grace i will
come out here soon please i don't need to be there in my country due to
my condition over there that is reason of my escape to take asylum in
refugee camp here in Abidjan.

The only person I have now is Rev
Father Daniel Eric who is the priest of the ( Roman Catholic UNHCR ) he
has been very nice to me since I came to this refugee camp, but i am not
living with him rather i live in the females hostel because the camp
have two hostels one for men the other for women, i write and reply
mails through the office of Reverend Daniel but It's my utmost dream to
relocate to your country as soon as possible, I have contacted Bank
Management to withdraw the $7.5million
Dollars deposit but the Director said by their local law my current
status will not permit me to withdraw this fund myself that i should
appoint a representative of my choice who will actually provide currents
account were this fund will be transferred I have thought of informing
my wicked stepmother about this deposit but I am afraid that she will
not offer me anything after the release of the money because she is
threaten to kill me.

I humbly solicit for your help in
transferring this fund to your reliable bank account while I relocate to
your country and continue my studies in a nice university, this is my
major reason to contact you upon receipt of your acceptance to help me I
will give you the complete account details of my late father and the
contact information’s of the Bank in Ivory Coast, on completion of the
transfer to your bank account, it is my intention to compensate you with
20% out of the total fund for your help, 10% will be donated to the
orphans like me to help the poor, then you will help me invest the
balance in profitable ventures in your country as I have no idea about
foreign investment.

Please consider my proposals awaiting your soonest reply.

Yours sincerely

Miss. Celine Karman.

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