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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: Susan James <edwin.keita1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: susanjames@alumni.com
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 12:00:43 +0200
Subject: Hi Dearest

Hi Dearest,

My name is Susan James my mother is from United State of America while my
father is from Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire in West Africa. My father and my
mother where living in America and I was born in America. My mother died
when I was only 7 years and I am the only daughter to my parents, so when I
was 9 years my father took me to his own town in Africa where he Establish
a company since then I am with my father till on the 1st of January 2014 my
father died in a car accident while coming back from a club meeting. So
after the burial of my father his brothers send me away, I mean my uncles
and they said that I am not the daughter of their brother so they took all
that my father had, houses and his company and they said that in Africa
here that woman did not have any right over her father property so they
drove me away from my father's house and I can not do anything to them
because I am only 18 years now.

Then the only thing I have now is the documents that my father used to
deposit a huge amount of money, he has deposit of $25,750,000 million
united. state dollars in a trunk box with a security company here in this
country and no one knows about this .My father disclosed this to me because
I am his only child and he told me that he wants to use this money to
Establish another company in overseas and he hand over the documents to me
and tell me that encase anything happens to him in any way that I have to
take this document and look for a foreigner from oversea, who will help me
to claim this trunk box from the security company and send it out from this
country to his or her country. And he told me that I should not let the
security company to know about the content in the trunk box because the
security company did not know any thing that is in the trunk box because he
told them that it is family valuables.

Since my father's family have drove me away and I have no where to go or
stay so I went to the security company to claim the trunk box, and the
director have agreed to release the trunk box to me as the next of kin and
the trunk box was deposited with my name as the next of kin but I see that
I can not claim this on my own because I am only 18 years I can not handle
the money that is inside so that is why I contact you to help me claim this
trunk box and ship it to your country so that I can be able to come to your
country for you to help me Establish an investment then I will continue my
Education in your country .Please I will reward you if you can assist me on
this please.

I will give you the documents if you agreed to help me with trust and
hornets without any disappointment. I will stop until I hear from you.
Please respond at my private email: susanjames@alumni.com

From Miss Susan James

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