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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: Nina Jeromy <ninajeromy1@pisem.net>
Reply-To: Nina Jeromy <nj4life2015@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 06:30:35 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Nina Jeromy


>From Nina Jeromy

After you read this my message please get back to me through my email
id below

Permit me to inform you of
my desire of going into business relationship with you.I
am writting you this message with tears and
sorrow
and i know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not
known or written before. My name is Ms Nina Jeromy ,I am a orphan girl
of 21 years
old, i am from Sierra Leone in west africa but presently i
am now in a country called CoteD'Ivoire where my late father deposited
some amount of money .

My late father was a 16 years economic
operator,director in his Company My late father was a very good business
man and also a politician here in my
country, he was poisoned to
death by his business associates and also his fellow politician on
one of their business trips recently.Before his sudden death, He called
me on his bedside bed at the hospital that he has a sum of $6.5 Million
USD ( Six Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars )  deposited in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire In
west Africa , that he used my name for the next of kin in depositing of
the fund.

Please i need your help to invest this money,

I
wish to invest in manufacturing and real estate management in your
base, this is because Inherited this sum from my late father who was
poisoned to death recently. I am going to give you 15% from the total
sum of money once it arrive to your account and 5% will be set aside for
any expenses that may occur during the transaction.
Please i really
need your help , i am not here for joke or game , waiting your urgent
reply to this my email id  , if you want to help me and know more about
me.You can give me your email id to write you as well.
Regards
Ms Nina
Jeromy

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