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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: Miss Lorenda Tejan-Sie <akissigueuma@zaw.att.ne.jp>
Reply-To: m_kabila0@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 7:10:02 +0900
Subject: From: Miss Lorenda Tejan-Sie

From: Miss Lorenda Tejan-Sie

Dearest beloved One

With due respect and trust, permit me to inform you of my desire in going into a good relationship with you.

I am Miss Lorenda Tejan-Sie, the only daughter of late Sir Augustus Tejan-Sie. My father was an engineer and a contractor with the Government of Cote D'Ivoire. He was mysteriously poisoned to death by his business associates over a row of a contract award in the Agricultural ministry of our country. I was told that my mother died few hours after giving birth to me due to over bleeding, I never knew her.

Before the death of my father in a hospital here in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire, he secretly called me on his bedside and told me to sat down and listen to him, he started crying complaining that I am too young to be manage my life and there is no body to take good care of me again as a young girl. After weeping, He narrated to me how he deposited the sum of Eleven Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (USD$11.8M) in one of the safety security company here in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire and he told me that he used my name as her only daughter as the next of kin for the deposit and he registered the consignment as Family Valuables for security reasons.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a Good foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this fund and use it for proper investment purpose.

For this reason, I seek your assistance to serve as my guardian and help me in the retrieving of the consignment that contents the money and have it transfer to your country.

I also require you assistance to continue my education in your country which I stopped since I lost my father lately.

I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for assisting me in this regard.

Please get back to me for further explanations.

Hoping to hearing from you soonest.

May God bless you as you extend your helping hand to me.

Yours Sincerely.
Miss Lorenda Tejan-Sie


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