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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: Jefry Philip <jefryphilip@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 11:32:02 +0000
Subject: I Solicit For Your Assistance,

Good Day; Dear Respectful One,

My Name is Philip Jefry 19 years old and my younger sister is Anick
Jefry 15 years old we are from France. Please go through below our
mail and see if you can Assist for Our mutual benefit, Our Father was
a business contractor who specialized in the importation and
exportation of Petroleum cuple with Gold, he died as a result of
CORONAVIRUS that led him to undesirable death one week after his trip
from Ivory Coast to negotiate on oil well pump he wanted to build in
Ivory Coast, which he has already deposited the sum of ( $25.4 Million
U.S Dollars ) in one bank there in Ivory Coast to start the oil well
project before his sudden death,

Recently, the bank management wrote me to present them my late father
Beneficiary since no name was mentioned to them by my late father as a
beneficiary during the time of the deposit,

so we solicit your assistance to stand as my late father's foreign
Business Partner to enable the bank to release the fund to you, I look
forward to hearing from you for more details if you are willing and
able to help me.

Best regards,
Philip / Anick

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