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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: lorna symi <l_symi17@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: l_symi1@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:02:39 +0900 (JST)
Subject: CRY FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE

FROM LORNA SYMI & WALLEN
ABIDJAN,IVORY COAST
WEST AFRICA.
Dear One,

I'm sorry if my message come to you as a surprise, i need you to help me recouver my inhenritance for mutual profits, My full name is Lorna Symi (22Years old) while my Brother Wallen symi (20Years old), Please accept our appology for sending you this mail since we have not meet nor see each
other before, please we are sorry for any embarracement that this letter may cause you, the truth is that we need your help, our late father deposited some fund in a local bank here with my name Lorna Symi as next of kin before the sudden death of our father, worth of nine million seven hundred
thousand dollars $ 9.7 million, now that we have lost our dad and I and my brother are the only one that left in the family no one to help us, We need your help so that we can transfer the money into your account in your country.

We can not handle it alone that is why we need your help please help us claim and transfer this money into your account so that you will help us to invest the money in a very good business since we don't have any one to stand for us and for the transfer and we are still young we hereby seek for
your sincere help in other to invest our money for our future please we want you to read this mail with free heart and try to put consideration into it for you to understand our situation for that we need your help into this issue.As we will need your urgent help to transfer this money out of
africa because of our uncle who killed our father is after our lives because of this money

I have every documentation that back up the fund all we need from you is your sincere help that's all please help us, upon your response to our mail we will direct you on the next step to follow.Please dear we willing to offer you 30% of the total sum as compensation for your urgent assistance
to us. Please kindly get back to us quickly as soon as you receive this message in our private e-mail address for security reason and for more details l_symi17@yahoo.co.jp


Thanks for your kind consideration and God bless you.

Lorna Symi & Wallen ,





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