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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: johnson prince <pjk_010205@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:51:15 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Good day to you


Dearest VICTIMNAME,

Thanks for your mail and explanation towards your assistance for the transfer of this money into your bank account and also I have to appologise for runing into a bad peolpe that have no fear of God that have cheated him self before God not you.

But all my promise to you is that I will always be sincere to and tell you only nothing but the truth till this money will finally gets to your bank account.I can from a very respectable Christian home and will never involve myself into any thing that will bring reproach to my life.

We are happy for your acceptance to assist us and we will like to inform you as follows;

You should promise us very strongly that you will not disappoint or betray us when this money will finally come into your bank account because this is an opprtunity we cannot afford to lose.

We are too young to know how to go about the success of this transfer, so we need all your elderly advice to ensure that everything work out fine.

We believed you can have this money transfer into your foreign account for the happy ending of both families(Yours and Ours). What matters now is for us to know you very well and you also know us too, since we have agreed to do this business together. Me and my sister are orphans, thus we became orphans by accident after the sudden death of our parents.

This money which is left behind for us in the bank by our late parents is the only hope of our lives.

You might not know how we felt to became orphans. Our hearts bleeds due to the predicaments which we are facing right here in Abidjan.

This is the reason why we contacted you to help us and transfer this money into your foreign account believing very well that you will never disappoint or betray the trust we have on you.


Now, to enable us forward your banking details to the bank here for the onward processing of the transfer into your bank account.

We will ask you to send to us your private phone and fax including your private banking details such as;

Name of your bank

address of your bank

account number

account name etc. We will submit it to the bank by today or tomorrow immediately you sent this to us and the bank will contact you directly for the transfer.

Moreover, we will like to inform you that immediately after the bank transfers this money into your bank account, we will then start to prepare for our trip to meet you over there in your country as we are interested to invest this money into a low risk business investment in your country which you will also assist us for any investment in your country.

We will like you to advise us on every investment. We are relying upon you for the completion of this transfer and you should handle this with sincerity.

We are looking forward to hear from you. God bless you.

Yours sincerely,

Prince Johnson



I apologize for the late reply. Last year I received an email about an inheritance in Cote d'Ivoire. Even though I paid almost £2500 ($5000) in fees to Barrister Eze, I have not yet received the money.I don't want to get burnt again.
Can I really trust you?VICTIMNAME
Harrow, London




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