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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: Peres Mariana <peresmariana067@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 14:00:40 +0000
Subject: Re:Hello

My greetings to you and your Family

permit to inform you of my desire of business relationship with you. I
have to believe you are reputable and responsible and trustworthy
person I can do business with the little information I am about you
during my search for a partner and the matter of trust I must not
hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere proposition.

I am peres mariana from, Cote D'Ivoire, the only daughter of late
Col.Didier zirihi Peres. My late father was serving colonel before he
was assassinated in service during the political crises in my country.
Leaving me and my mother who is my reason for contacting you. Now my
mother is currently diagnosed with Leukemia being a Cancer of the
Blood, in one missionary hospital praying for her recovery. From
medical report, she says she can only survive if urgent medical
surgery is carried out on her.

For this reason, I decided to seek for your assistance and reveal you
to my heritance from my late father. Before the death of my father he
told me he has a sum of US $ 5.5,000,000 (five million, five hundred
united states dollars) kept in a financial firm, here in cote d'ivoire
in my name

Dear, in the capacity of the next cinemas and with all the documents
in my hand now, I am contacting you with a sence of humanity that you
will give it a sympathetic and mutual consideration.

I am honestly seeking your assistance in the following ways.

(1) To serve as a guardian of this fund to assist me visit the bank
here to retrive the money.

(2) To make arrangement for me and my mother to come over to your
country, and source for abetter hospital for my mother treatment

(3) To provide good investment plans for the fund and to manage the fund


furthermore, you can Indicate your option towards assisting me as I
believe that this transaction would be concluded within a stipulated
period of time you signify your interest to assist me.

My mother must not die. please help me save her life.

Anticipating hearing from you immediately.

Thanks and God bless.
Best Regards.
Peres Mariana

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