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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: Janete Moon <janetemoon1@outlook.com>
Reply-To: Janete Moon <janetemoon5@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:21:10 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: I Need Your Help



i need help!,

Good Day my dear. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise but permit me to introduce myself to you.I am Janete Moon Unfortunately. I 'm now an orphan,the only child and Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Justina Moon, from Ivory Coast Abidjan. My father died of food poison. Since his death, things have completely changed and my life became miserable. One of my uncles accepted me in his house. At first, I was ok even though his wife was too harsh on me. She treats me aslave in my uncle's house. Presently she has influenced her husband and life is now like hell to me. They have changed my father’s personal assets to their names. Recently I discovered a letter in my uncle’s closet and in that letter, I found out that my uncle and two other people planned and poisoned my father.

My uncle killed my father in order to take over his businesses and inherit his wealth.they might decide to kill me or poison me as they did to my father in order to keep me silent for the evil they did to my beloved late father and i have reported him to the local Police of my country (Ivory Coast) but the Police have not done anything to help me.For safety, I decided to run away from the house. I'm now in a hidden place very far from the town.

My purpose of contacting you is because I need to come to your country secretly so that my uncle will not know my where about. I have here some documents which my father gave to me secretly before he died in the hospital about the deposited of (5.8 Million US Dollars only)he kept IN Abidjan Cotedivoire here in my name and I have verified this with the Bank director before contacting you.I will give you all information and the deposit documents if you need to see it,after I hear from you.

I have plans to do investment in your country, like real estate and industrial production.I am willing to offer you 20% of the total fund once the fund is transferred to your account oversea.

Please contact me with this privet e-mail janetemoon5@gmail.com

I am looking forward to your reply.
Thanks and best regards .
Miss Janete Moon

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