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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: Dorris Justin yak <justindorris1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: justindorriss@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 10:30:20 +0000
Subject: Please I Sincerely in need of your assistance,

Dearest Beloved one,

Please permit me to introduce myself, i am Miss Dorris Bwogo Olieu, am
19 years old female from "South Sudan" East-Central Africa, I'm the
Daughter of Late high-ranking South Sudanese military commander allied
to president "Salva Kiir’s" Government which died after he was
allegedly ambushed in Upper Nile state by government forces. My late
Father was a well known "South Sudan" military leader as a General. He
died on Thursday April 2, 2015.

You can read more about the death of my father through this link:
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article54482

I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment 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 died during child birth and i was
left me alone with my step mother to take care of me. Meanwhile i
wanted to travel to oversees, but she hideaway my traveling documents.
Luckily she did not discover where i kept my father's File which
contained important documents like his "WILL" and secrete key of our
family treasure box in the security company which bears my name as the
next of kin to inherit and utilize our family treasure in the security
company. Today I am presently staying in the Refugee Mission Camp here
in "Ivory Coast" I am seeking for effective relationship and
investment assistance. My late father of blessed memory secretly made
a fixed deposit of Eighteen Million Four Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars in the security company on my name as the next of kin and the
management of the security company in charge has allowed me to
confirmed for me the existence of this money in their security company
custody which i am the only person knows about this sufficient huge
amount of money registered by my late father as a family treasure on
the metallic box in the security company.

As i visited the security company to claim the treasure box, the
Management told me that my late father place an instruction on the
agreement certificate of the deposit to our treasure which stated i
must present a foreign trustee who will help me claim this treasure
box to invest the money contained on the treasure box in his/her
country oversees. However, the management advised me to provide a
trustee who will stand on my behalf for the claim of this treasure box
before they will release it. i could have inform my stepmother about
this family treasure box in the security company but i am afraid of
her because of her attitudes on me since after the death of my beloved
father.

This makes me to decide to seek for a trust worthy person who will
assist me in claim of this money containing on the treasure box out of
the security company to invest it in his/her private sector to enable
me join over to his/her country to continue my education and settle
dawn. If you indicate your interest to assist me, i will introduce you
to the security company and submit to you the security company contact
details where my late father deposited our family treasure with my
name as the next of kin. It is my intention to compensate you with 30%
out of the total money after the successful of the claim for your
assistance and the balance shall be my investment capital in any
profitable venture which you will recommend to me as i have no idea
about foreign investment / any business at all there in your country.
Please all my communications with you should be confidential for
security purposes.

I will be given you more detail as soon as i hear from you and your
wiliness to assist me. Please quickly get back to me on my private
email address bellow: (olieudorris@outlook.com) waiting for your
urgent response.

Yours Sincerely,
Miss. Dorris Bwogo Olieu.

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