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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: "Zoungrana Clarisse" <mrszoungranaclarisse@gmail.com>
Reply-To: zoungranaclarisse22@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 05:49:06 +0000
Subject: Hello!

Hello! Dear in Christ,

It is not my power to contact you, But by his grace ,Dear please , listen not just to
the words, but listen for the reason, I did not know you in person, But I believe you
can help me, You are free to respond from your private email address, If this email is
not save ok!,My name is Mrs. Clarisse, A woman of 6 month daughter, I am from Bobo the
formal capital of Burkina Faso, right now I am residing in Ouagadougou the capital.

Dear, the true test in life does not occur when all is going well. The true test takes
place when we are faced with challenges, I was born and brought up in a Christian
family, I met my husband and it happen he is Muslim, by his grace after our marriage he
was converted to Christian, We live happy and strong, actually his family were not happy
with him, After he came a Christian, They stop coming to our house, later they start
coming.

All a sudden my husband fell sick and died within 24hours, My husband was the head of
Burkina Faso Gold International association Agent, If you are in Africa you will know
him, What a lovely husband, We share the same email, We have joint account But he have
separate cooperate account in dollars, The name of my husband is late Dr.Zoungrana
H.Kabore, He is well known in the country.

The family accuse me for the death of my husband, No body stand by me, But I have faith
as a believer, The account of my late husband is officially hold by the bank, The case
is in the court now, the lawyer has declared that the funds have to be share into 4
PART, 3 part for the father, mother and brothers and sisters and One part for me and my
only daughter.

Before the death of my husband, Bank sent to him statement of cooperate bank account and
the paper is with me right now, the amount is $2.5 Million us dollars, the process of
goal setting has helped me to focus not on what the family thought I should do or be,
but instead, on what I wanted to accomplish with my life.

I seek for your assistant and help as a Christian to secure these funds in your account,
For me and my daughter future, I don’t know about the account, It was by his grace the
statement of the account came to our house before the death of my husband, I have
declared in my heart, If you help me, I would use part of the funds to help charity home
and the less privilege around the world.

Finally: Upon this I seek for your help to secure the funds in your bank account, It is
100% free, The document is with me and you are entitle to take 30% of the funds, I have
the document with me, I am waiting for urgent respond, You are free to visit the bank if
you wish, all what I need is to secure the funds for the future of my daughter and my
family, I AM STILL WAITING PLEASE, IT IS VERY URGENT;

Mrs. Zoungrana.E. Clarisse.

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