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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: Jennifa Jakes <panyona@ke.uapkenya.com>
Reply-To: jennifa jakes <jennifajakes@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 04:22:02 +0300 (EAT)
Subject: HELLO BELOVED

Greetings,

I am Jennifa Jakes the daughter of Engr and Mrs. Patrick Jakes my
father was a very wealthy oil business man based here in London,
before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of
their outing to discuss on a business trip.

When my mother died on the 21st October 2010, my father took me so
special because I am motherless, before the death of my father on 29th
of March 2014 in a private hospital in London, He secretly called me
on his bed side and told me that he has a sum of ($6.5 Million GB
Pounds) left in a suspense vault in a one of the banks in London
United Kingdom, That he used my name as the next of kin in deposit of
the Funds.

He also explain to me that it was because of his wealth and the
business which amount(Thirty Four Million United State Dollars) they
are having at hand, that he was poisoned by his business associates.
That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice
where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose
especially in the area of real estate management.

I am really seeking for your assistance in the following ways

To help me to move this fund from the bank to your account in your country
To serve as guardian of this fund since I am a girl of 21 years old
and my sister is 23

To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education.

However, this is clean money without any problem deposited there for
some years now, I have contacted you hoping that I can trust and rely
on you, your assistance will be compensated and I am willing to
negotiate with you whatever compensation you want, but I don't have to
run into conclusion without our agreement. If I get a positive from
you of your wish and idea furthermore, I will be be including every
DOCUMENTS ascertained from the Bank when the consignment was deposited
by my late father as I believe that this transaction would be
concluded within seven working days.

This mail was translated for security reason so that I may know that
it will be only you that will read it not someone from my country. You
can mail me back; I don't want to make misplacement of information, as
I want this assistance to be between you and i.

Every information regarding this transaction is already perfected, so
(if you are interested) you should please email me (jennifajakes@gmail.com)
with the following information:

1 Full Name
2 Address (physical)
3.Telephone numbers so that we can be communicating privately.
4.Age

If you are not interested in this proposal, please just disregard my
email and never let anyone know about it for my security.

Thanks and God bless you.
Best Regards,
Jennifa
jennifajakes@gmail.com

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