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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: Joy Andrew <joyandrew44@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:42:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: ALL ABOUT ME WITH LOVE AND TRUST


My Dearest
How are you today and your environment Hope all is well with you
Mine
is a little bit hot over here in Dakar Senegal.In this camp we are only
allowed to go out only on Mondays and Fridays of the week it's just
like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace i will come out
here soon.

I don't have any brother,sister or relatives now whom i
can go to all my relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only
person i have now is Rev Paul James who is the pastor of the (Christ
The  king Church) here in the camp and i am sending you mail from his
office computer,i beg him for ten minutes when i want to check my email
and reply, he has been very nice to me since i came here but i am not
living with him rather i am leaving in the women's hostel because the
camp have two hostels one for men the other for women.

The
Pastors
Tel number is  00221-7684-28975 or +221-7684-28975 if you call and tell
him that you want to speak with me he will send for me in the hostel.
As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilledge to any thing be
it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country.I
want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year
before the traggic incident that lead to my being in this situation now
too place.

Please listen to this,i have my late father's
statement of account and death certificate here with me which i will
send to you latter,because when he was alive he deposited some amount of
money in a leading bank in europe which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is $5.6M five Million six Hundred Thousand
Dollars.

So
i will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from
it you send to me some money for me to get my traveling documents and
air ticket to come over to meet
with you.I kept this secret to people in the camp here the only person
that knows about it is the Reverend because he is like a father to me.
So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and
don't tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money
if people gets to know about it.

Remember i am giving you all
this information due to the trust i deposed on you.I like honest and
understanding people,truthful and a man of vision,truth and hardworking.
My favorite language is English but very well.Meanwhile i will like you
to call me like i wish i have alot to tell you.i will like you to send
more pictures to me ok.Have a nice day and please think about
me.Awaiting to hear from you soonest.And i will send to you my picture
again. yours
 Joy

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