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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: "Mr. Johnson Jeffrey" <j.jefrey4@aol.fr>
Reply-To: johnson_jeffrey97@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 17:39:05 GMT
Subject: From Mr. Johnson Jeffrey, I am waiting for your reply.

Dear  Friend,

I write to seek your co-operation as my foreign partner and your assistance to enable me own properties and invest in the economy of your country. I apologize if this letter does not suit your personal or business ethics.

My name is Mr. Johnson Jeffrey, a lawyer and personal confidant to a dead depositor of Gold and huge amount of money with a reputable bank here in my country. I trusted and believed to confide this confidential business suggestion to you and I am making this venture proposal to you in strict confidence. This is an overdue unclaimed fund totaling to the amount of US$19.5M, and Gold worth about US$30M, belonging to one of my foreign clients who is now deceased. I want to make the transfer to oversea with the assistance and co-operation of a company or an individual, via a reliable Bank Account as the Foreign Business Partner to the deceased.

Although the world is very small place and hard place to meet people because you don't know who to trust or believe, but as I have developed trust in you after my fasting and prayers, I made up my mind to confide this confidential business suggestion to you. If you will like to assist me as a partner then indicate your interest after which we shall both discuss the modalities and the sharing percentage. All other information to facilitate the remittance of the funds will be revealed to you in due course. If you are not interested, please also indicate so to enable me contact other foreign partners who might be interested to work with me.

A swift acknowledgment of the receipt of this letter and early establishment of position will be appreciated.

You should forward your reply to this private Email ID which I have desiganted for this project thus;Email: johnson_jeffrey97@yahoo.com

I am waiting for your reply.

Best regards,

Mr. Johnson Jeffrey.

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