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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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From: "Mrs. Mira Stojanovic" <info@pcplandscapes.in>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Mira Stojanovic" <mrsmira7272@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:21:14 -0700
Subject: Reply...


Hello Dear, I am very sorry to send you this message which you did not expect from me today, please do not be surprise to read my mail because you are the intended recipient. I got your email address from a directory during my search for an honest person and I contacted you personally because my heart tells me that you are the right person who will help me achieve and complete this charity work.

My name is Mrs. Mira Stojanovic. I am 56 years old woman and I am legally married to late Mr. Zoran Stojanovic. Me and my late husband where both citizens of Serbia in Europe and we lived here in West Africa (Ivory Coast) for the past 17 years ago. My late husband worked with the PETROCI (www.petroci.ci) oil drilling company as an expatriate here in Abidjan the economic capital of Ivory Coast for many years before he died on 20th January 2012. I and my late husband were both married without a single biological child of our own. My husband died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. I presently have a serious breast cancer sickness now and I am writing this message with the help of my medical private doctor from the general hospital here in Ivory Coast where I was admitted for the past two weeks because my cancer disease is getting so bad every day. When my late husband was alive, he deposited the sum of Five Million Five Hundreds Thousand Euros (€5,500,000.00) in a fixed/suspense account with one of the international banks here in Ivory Coast and he also signed an agreement with the bank that the funds will be used for charity purposes such as; helping the motherless babies, supporting church activities and helping the less privilege children to continue their education.

My reason of contacting you personally today is because my private doctor here in the general hospital just informed me that my breast cancer sickness has gotten worst and they are going to carry out a serious cancer surgery on my heart by next weekend which I might not survive according to the doctors. If anything happen to me during my surgery, the bank here in Africa will embezzle the funds because nobody will present to claim it. This is the reason I contacted you to help in the following ways-

1) I want you to help me transfer the funds (€5,500,000.00) to your bank account in your country.

2) After the transfer to your bank account, you will collect 25% of the total funds for yourself as compensation and use the remaining 75% to do the charity work in your country such as helping the motherless babies, supporting church activities and helping the less privileged children to continue their education in your country. But all these have to be established with the name of my late husband (ZORAN CHARITY FOUNDATION).

Note: I do not want to contact any NGO organizations here in Africa or in Europe anymore, this is because when my late husband was still alive, he donated some huge amount of money to the NGO and some other charity organizations, but we received so many complaints from the same communities that the NGO’s in charge of the charity donation is not helping the people accordingly and they use the funds dubiously among themselves. So you have to handle this transaction personally by yourself because I have so much trust in you as my spirit directed me. I have already informed the bank manager where the funds (€5,500,000.00) were deposited about this and he advised me to contact an honest person who will help me so that they will transfer the funds. You have to take this project very seriously and I want you to reply me immediately you read my mail now so that I will give you more details and also the bank contacts.

I am anxiously waiting for your immediate response.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Mira Stojanovic.
mrsmira7272@gmail.com



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