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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: alicekanga51@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:02:00 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FROM MISS ALICE JENNIFER KANGA !!!.

FROM MISS ALICE JENNIFER KANGA.
ABIDJAN.IVORY COAST.
COTE D'IVOIRE. WEST AFRICA.

APPEAL FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE.

Dear Guardian,

Greetings! I am delighted to write to you. Please I am very sorry if this mail come to you as surprise since we don't know each other before. But I just felt like emptying myself to confide in you toward this mutual transaction at hand. As I am faced with total frustration and hardship
life here. My Earnest prayer is that you find this mail in good health and blessings. Though we don't know each others before but it is by the grace of God that I found your contact recently in the internet here while searching for a reliable & trustworthy someone who to confide in this
transaction. Because I believe that a human being has to take a risk sometime to confide in success in life . Therefore I will like to entrust this matter unto your care hope without any disappoint in future.

To introduce myself . I am Miss Alice Jennifer Kanga. The only daughter of late Mr. And Mrs.Francis Kanga. My father was a very wealth Cocoa & Gold Merchants in Abidjan, the economic capital of our country Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) in West Africa. My father was poisoned to death by one
of his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when I was a two years old during her childbirth and since then my father took me so special as only child . Before the death of my father on november 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan , he secretly
called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of (USD$12.5M) (Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) left in one of the private security company custody here in Abidjan Ivory Coast , he explained to me that the funds was packaged as Consignment box and it's values
was registerred & labelled as a family valuables such as Gold, Jewelries and personal effects not as fund for security reason , that he used my names her only daughter for the next of kin in depositing this consignment with this private security company's here..

My father further explained to me that he knew that he was poisioned by his business associates because of some money they owed him that he advised me that I should seek for an foreign partner in a country of my choice to assist me to claim and invest this fund in any viable business venture
such as real estate or hotel management and also for the safety of my life, because presently now I am not at the legal age to inherrit the consignment unless I have a foriegn guardian like you who can stand for me due to the condition of depositing the consignment with this company here.

Therefore. I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards. Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

Now permit me to ask you these few questions:-

(1) Can you help me for the retrievements of this Consignment box in the security company here and to help me to provide a bank account in which the fund therein would be transferred into?

(2) Can you kindly stand for me as a guardian since I am only 19 years old?

(3) Can you kindly help me to make an arrangement to come over to your country to further my Education and to secure a resident permit in your country as soon as you claim the consignment in your possesion?

(4) Can you honestly take me as your own and help me out?

(5) Can I completely trust you?

(6) What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you
after the money is in your possesion?

Please get back to me if you are willing to assist me out, because presently now my life is in dangers here, since thereafter the death of my father all my uncles here are always after my life, been I am only daugther and the next of kin to all the wealth & properties, then they started
jealous of me and my presence here still be disturbing them , presently now I am no longer in my father's house . I resides in one of the churchs premises here hiding myself there due to lack of security to my life till I shall get rid of this transaction and leave here for your country to
resides finally, continue my education and also to invest the money with you by your own permission and directives. I am really in needs of your urgent help despirately both morrally , physically and financially, because without your great assistances then I don't have any capacity to do anything
here now and I will find it difficults to claim the said funds myself alone with my little experience & age .

Hoping to read back from you .

Thanks & Regards,

Sincerely yours,

Miss Alice Kanga.





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