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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: Monifa Azeem <anitaifezuo100@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Monifa Azeem <monifa.azeem@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 03:24:23 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Greetings to you.


Greetings to you.

I know really that this message will come to
you as a surprise but please permit me to introduce myself to you
because i am seriously in need of your assistance. My name is Monifa
Azeem.
I have a serious problem which is an injury that lingers in my
soul for almost ten months now and I want somebody who is reliable and
honest who will advise or give me help and suggestion on how to overcome
the crisis. my mother is not longer alive here in Abidjan as I am
writing you and recently My Beloved Dad join his ancestors through the
hand evil politicians who accused my father of supporting the past
president Laurent Gbagbo who is now in prison in Holland and since then
the rebels and supporters of
the present government are seeking a way to eliminate my life after
assassinating my father and by
the grace of God I exkept from the hand of the rebels and ran to hide
in Capital city of our country Abidjan IVORY COAST for the security of
my life.

How I wish I will see you now in my country and we talk
to each other at present. My father before his death was a chairman of
cocoa dealers here in Bouake Ivory Coast that was when I am still a
student at the federal college of Abidjan. but I stop school after the
death of my father and, as am writing you now, all my hope and dream of
future was shattered and spread to the sky as I don't know what to do,

My
father left a big amount of money with the bank $4.500.000 Dollars, and
I don't know about this, it was on the 10th of October last year that
our family lawyer kindly hand over to me the documents covering the
deposit and the WILL my father wrote and the instruction on how I will
utilize the money, Meanwhile I don't know what actually what to do with
this money because of shattered brain
and life line, that is why I contacted you so that you can advise me
and also help or give me suggestion how I will handle the inheritance
and also help me to transfer this fund to your account over in your
country because right here i am scared of my life due to the threat by
the supporters of the president.

My dear after the conclusion of
the transfer of the money I will come over to your country to have peace
and security and also to continue my education while you will search
for a good business to invest the money,

Please it is a long
story that if I start to narrate them now, you will start shedding tears
over there, but I will give you more details in my next mail but kindly
bear in mind that I need you to help me out from this my bad condition 
and help transfer this money to your account and assist me come over
there for security of my life and the fund and start a new life with
you.
My dear I wait to hear from you so that
i can give you details on how the fund will be transferred to your account.

Thanks once again and please extend my greeting to your family.
Thanks and God bless you
Miss Monifa Azeem.

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