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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: "Miss. Anne Jehane" <ann.jehanee@yandex.com>
Reply-To: <ann.jehane2016@yandex.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:20:13 +0100
Subject: RE: I await your response



--
I am Miss. Anne Jehane a financial consultant to Mrs. Simone Gbagbo the
wife of the former president Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast. I am in
sincere
need of your faithful assistance to help me relocate Mrs. Simone
Gbagbo's
fund into your account for safe-keeping and investment.

Actually Mrs. Gbagbo has the sum of Twelve Million, Five hundred
thousand
United States Dollars, under my care deposited with a bank in Spain
forign
vestment in real estate when she was heading the post of First Lady.
The
present government of Cote d 'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) has impounded all
assets
and cash belonging to the family of Ex president Gbagbo and except the
funds deposited in the named Spanish bank is the only safe one because
it
was already moved to the bank before the confiscation of assets and
properties of former president Gbagbo.

During my last visit to her in prison, she advised that I make an
arrangement to move the money out from Spain immediately into a new
foreign
account, with a foreigner in his name to avoid tracing the money and
invest
the money abroad which is why I am contacting you for the safety of
this
fund, since all their investment in Africa in their names have been
confiscated and taken.

I choose to contact a complete stranger for this transaction because so
many people have betrayed me and Mrs. Simone Gbagbo. I need someone who
can
be trusted because this is the only hope left for the future of
Gbagbo's
family. I need your urgent response so that I can give you details to
enable us move forward. You will get 20% of the total sum for
successful
moving the funds to your account and in the course of every profit made
from the investment you negotiated, you will get 20% for your sincere
assistant and efforts as approved by the First lady. The named bank in
Spain has been informed about releasing the funds to any appointed
beneficiary to the fund and this has been agreed upon. The investment
we
want you to consider is on real estate but if you have other lucrative
ones, you can suggest as I will always be part of it.

I assure you that you will never regret your efforts. This transaction
is
programmed to be completed in 10 days, therefore contact me urgently on
this email, (ann.jehane2016@yandex.com) for discussion on the fund
release
to you.I wait to read from you and keep this information top secret
away
from theAfrican government and officials and friends not until we are
done
with this transaction

Best Regards,
Ms. Anne Jehane

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