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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: julliet.chea2008@yahoo.co.id
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:41:54 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: From Miss Julliet Chea.


Dearest One,

Please Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into a relationship with you. Which to my best of knowledge will establish an everlasting
relationship between me and your family.I am Julliet Chea the only daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.Richard K.Chea,a devoted chritian who went on helping people but later was disapointed by his close relatives and bussiness friends.

My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan; the economic
capital city of Ivory Coast, my father was poisoned to death by his
business associates on one of their outings on a business trip.

My mother as well died when I was a baby and since then,before the death of my father, that was after the death of my mother,my father took me so special before his unfortunate death that kept me an ophan today without mother,without father and without brothers and sisters.

Before the death of my father on March 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of ($10,500, 000) which he deposited in a suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan cote d' Ivoire That he used my name as his only daughter for the next of Kin in depositing the money in the account.
He also explained to me that it was because of this Money that he was
poisoned by his business associates. That I should seek for a foreign
partner in a country of my choice where i will transfer the fund into for
investment. I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
(1) To serve as My guardian and foreign trustee to enable the Bank transfer the money to you on my behalf, since I am only 20 years old.

(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country.Moreover,I am willing to offer you 20% commission of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account in your country.

Furthermore, you indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within a shortest period so that I will come over to your country. Upon your interest and Anticipating to assist me, I look forward to your further word with interest.I am assuring you of a hundred percent riskfree in the course of
transfering this fund for i have every legal backing concerning the
deposition of the money.

Thanks and God bless.

Sincerely,


Julliet Chea.




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