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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: Annie Michel <annie.michel022@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Annie Michel <annie.michel@live.fr>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 04:00:13 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Hello dear,


Hello dear,

My
name is Miss. Annie Michel 21 years old. Unfortunately, I'm now an
orphan as my mother died when I was 6 years old,my father died of food
poisoned. My late father Mr. Gagnon Michel was a very wealthy timber
dealers and
cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory coast. But
unfortunately died of food poison,since his death, things have
completely changed and my life became miserable. One of my uncle
accepted me in his house. At first, I was ok even
though his wife was too hostile. she treats me like a slave in my
uncle's house.

Presently she has influenced her husband and life
is now like hell to me. Recently I discovered a letter in my uncle's
closet
and in that letter, I found out that my uncle and two other people
planned and poisoned my father. My uncle conspired with my father's
business rivals and
poisoned my father in order to take over his businesses and inherit his
wealth. in that letter they were asking my uncle to give them their own
part of the deal,while reading that letter, I had a shock so I fainted
and my uncle came in and caught me with the letter. Ever since then my
life is at risk. I'm afraid that they might decide to kill me or poison
me as they did to my father in order to keep me silent for the evil they
did to my father.

For safety, I decided to run away from the
house. I'm now in a hidden place very far from the town. My purpose of
contacting you is because I need to come to your country secretly so
that my uncle will not know my where about. I have here some documents
which my father gave to me secretly before he died in the hospital about
the secret deposited of $6.500,000.00 (Six Million Five Hundred
Thousand United state dollars) he kept with financial company and he
used my name as next of kin. I have verified this
with the financial company before contacting you.

Dear why i
took this instant decision was because i went to the bank to withdraw
some money for myself management but the bank director said that i have
no right to withdraw any money or input any money to the deposit until
the money get transfer to a foreign account  due to my late step father
bond agreement with their bank that I  should seek a foreign guardian
who have account  where they will transfer the money ,he further
explained that my late step father deposited the money in a suspense
account for onward transfer and investments only.

I shall require
you help me to transfer this money to your country for investment after
the transfer, I will come to live in your country to continue my
education where i stopped. I will give you all information you need
after I hear from you. I am in a sincere desire of your humble
assistance in this regards. Your suggestions and ideas
will be highly regarded. I am willing to offer you 20% for your effort
after the successful transfer of this fund to your account oversea.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:

1.Can you honestly help me from your heart?
2. Can I completely trust you?

Please,
consider this and get back to me as soon as possible. Immediately i
confirm your willingness, i will send you more details on how to proceed
further.

Yours Sincerely
Miss. Annie Michel

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