The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, I can 100% guarantee that YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Akum Brenda <akum_01@yahoo.com> Reply-To:     akum_01@yahoo.com Subject:     Good Day Dear Date:     Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:41:15 -0700 (PDT) (14:41 EDT) Good Day Dear My name is juliet konan ,am 22 years old,I am Ivorian Natinonality in West African regoin.I am the only daugther of late CHIEF WALEHJI konan, my late father is the former Director of Gold and Diamond Minning industry here in Bouakee before the rebels attacked our house and kill my mother and my father,Luckly to me,i was in school at Ghana when the incident happens. Before the death of parents,my father told me that he deposited the sum of US$ 5,500,000.( five Million,Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) with a Bank here in Abidjan under fixed suspence account that he used my name as the next of kin that i should be 25 years before having access to it.He also told me that his intention was to open Bank account in overseas and transfer the money for foreign investments. Please,my reasons of contacting you is to request for your co-operation and assistance to help me transfer this money into a foreign account of yours by providing a bank account either companys or your private account where the money can be remitted in your care until I finished my Education career in your country. Please remember the confidentiality and urgency my mail required while I expect to hear from you.  Thanks and God bless you and your family. Yours Sincerely,  Juliet konan   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters.

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary/commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust/diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam e-mail published on this website, the solution is simple. Don't send me spam.