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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a orphan scam.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- melissalovef02@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Melissa Usman" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <melissalovef02@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 12:22:04 +0100
Subject: Can I Trust You?

Greetings to you Sir/Madam.

I hope I meet you in good spirit,my name is Melissa Usman,I am 18 years old and I `m the only surviving child of my late parents Mr and Mrs Ezekial Francois Usman,I lost my parents and my only kid brother mysteriously in a car accident on their trip to Ivory Coast where my dad runs his oil firm company which I was so lucky that I was not in the car with them that faithful Friday Morning on 27th July 2012,their death has cost me so much pains physically and mentally because I was just 13 years when I lost them and ever since then I have been staying with my late father`s brother Mr Edwin Usman who has been treating me like a slave in my own father`s house, ever since I lost my parents I have been serving my uncle as a servant from the first day he packed in to claim all my late father`s properties.

My late father was a well known man in Benin Republic because of his personality in the buisness world which his brothers have ended up sharing and misused it because of their greediness and lack of education so all they want was to share the properties which they have succeeded to achieve.

I have been living a sorrowful and lonely life over here since the incident I was bit younger as I said before and earlier this year 15th of April 2017 I discoverd a deposit certificate in my late father`s abandoned stationary which stated that the certificate proves that my late father has made in a deposit in a bank called (BICICI BANK PLC ABIDJAN IN IVORY COAST)a deposit worth Twenty Million dollars ($20,000,000. 00 )in Ivory Coast where he was running his oil buisness on March 06 2011.

I have gone to the bank to make necessary verification about the existence of the funds and I`m so glad that the bank manager of the BICICI BANK has it positive and existing that is the reason why I am contacting you so that I can introduce you to the bank as my partner so that the BICICI BANK will let me have access to my funds because they said that they can not release the money to me until I get someone to back me up as partner just because of my age before they can transfer the funds to any foreign account,I really need to relocate from my Country to have a new life abroad and somehow a new family if you can accept me as your daughter,I will recomend you to the bank manager as my partner and someone I have chosen as the beneficiary of my funds whom I have also chosen to help me protect and invest on my funds when I relocate to your Country,your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

Finally,I have some question`s to ask you please.

1. Can I really trust you that you are not going to deny me my funds after it`s transfer to your account?
2. Are you willing to help me because I don`t have anyone to help me get the money release without your full assistant?
3.Can I really trust you that you are not going to scam me out of my money because of my age?
4.What percentage of the total amount in question shall be okay for you after the money is completely transfer to your account?

consider this and get back to me as soon as possible. Immediately I confirm your willingness, I will send to you my picture and the deposit certificate of the fund.

Kind Regards.
Melissa Usman
E-mail(melissalovef02@gmail.com)

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