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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: Miss Promise Juanh <babyshannon663@gmail.com>
Reply-To: juanhpromise@mail.com
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:52:59 +0200
Subject: Hello dear partner,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration. My name is Miss
Promise Juanh The only Daughter of late Joseph Juanh, from Sierra-Leone ( I
am 19years of age. My father was former Director of finance Sierra-Leone
diamond, Gold and Mining Corporation, in Free Town, the economic capital of
Sierra Leon before his untimely death.After his business trip, my father
got an accident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my
father died five days after in a private hospital in our country. On that
faithful afternoon, I didn’t know that my father was going to leave me
after I had earlier lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was
as if he knew he was going to die.

My father called me and told me that he deposited the sum of Nine
Million, United State Dollars. USD ($9,000.000.00) left in fixed/suspense
account in one of the prime bank in LOME the economic capital of TOGO. That
the money was meant for his diamond and Gold Company he wanted to establish
in Tunisia, according to my father he deposited the money in suspense
account using my name as the next of kin. My reason to contact you is to
assist me to transfer the fund into your account because the bank made an
agreement with my father I can not access to this fund only if I can having
an foreign partner from oversee to help me transfer the money and invest
it. I will give you the full detail's as soon as I hear from you.

Yours Faithfully
Miss Promise Juanh

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