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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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Fraud email example:

From: Marey Janne <jannemarey43@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:14:23 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: my dear i need your help in my life




my dear i need your help in my life
thank God that i am alive.
i am marey.janne.koffi i am from ivory.coast i am 20y plase i am contacting you for a purpose i will like to hear from you for more infromation about me my dear i will be happy to hear from you .in my country we have crisis in election please i need your help in my life  please (mareyjanne@yahoo.com or you can call me to belive +22503491538) contact me for more information



My Dearest one,
Based on your profile, l am happy to request for your assistance and  i believe that you will not betaryed the trust which i am going to lay on you.

It is my pleasure to write you after consideration, since I can not be able to see you face to face, at first,  please I need your help.  I am marey.janne the only Daughter of late Mr & Mrs. koffi  from Cote D'Ivoire. (I am 20years of age.) My father was a rich Raw Rubber merchant in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire before his untimely death.  After his business trip to Sudan, to negociate on a cocoa and rubber business he wanted to invest in Sudan,  a week after he came back  from Sudan, he was attack by hired men who suceeded in murdering my mother and fataly wounded my father on his attempt to escaped from his car,atfer taking to hosipal by a passby he died a few days due to the cutless wounds  But before he give up   he called me to his bed side and told me that i should seek for my life that his elder brother is the one that hired those men and he will still seek to kill me too due to greedyness he also told me that he deposited the sum of
($6,500,000.00) Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars in a bank here in  Cote D'Ivoire.

That the money was meant for his raw Rubber business he wanted to establish in Sudan,  according to my father he deposited the money in a fixed suspense account using my name as the next of kin, He instructed me to seek  for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment abroad.
 
Now I have succeeded in locating the deposit documents and the bank where this money is here in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.  Due to political uprising in my country  Cote D'Ivoire.
I am now seeking for your assistance to help me transfer this money out from my country Cote D'Ivoire to your account abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life.  I am willing to offer you 15% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament.
I seek your assistance in the follwing ways:
 
(1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be transfered
(2.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your country to further my education.
(3.) To help invest this money in a profitable business since I am only 20yrs of age and do not know much about business. 
(5). I want you to promise me that you are not going to betray me after the money gets into your account.

The worst part of it is that my uncle is trying to kill me over this money because I refused to hand him over the documents covering this money, He has sold all my father's landed properties including his cars which rightful belongs to me and now he want me to hand over the banking document of my father in my possesion which I refused. Now he said that he will have this money by all means even if it means killing me, so because of this I ran away from home and hide in a church ,pending when i will found someone trustworthy to help me get this money out from my country here to his or her account for safety.

Thank's and God bless you.

marey jannea

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