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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Lizzy Fofone" <lizzyfofoneall@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:39:44 -0800
Subject: Lizzy.

Dear Sir
I am Harrison Kpolu the son of late Mr.John Kpolu of the republic of Liberia; Meanwhile I am on exile in Ghana. After much atrocities ,human right abuses and the overthrow of the government of Charles Taylor some years back. My father served the government as a presidential adviser on finance and mineral resources. During his term in office he had various sum of cash and diamonds and gold deposited in various secret vaults overseas. Due to the situation and the ECOWAS EMBARGO ON former ministers of Charles Taylor he could not travel out beyond west Africa . Fortunately for him , he managed to get access to one of the vaults in Ghana, the vaults contains $15.5m USD and the diamonds and gold wrath about six million USD"marked" this was intentionally done by him for security reasons before he was killed by his enemy, And due to my father death, My mother fell hill and has B.p and also die too so i and my little sister Lizzy are here in the refugee camp now. Please that is why
i really need your help because she is all I have now. I want you as my foreign partner to come and assist me claim this vault from the security company, hence my late father has registered it with my name as next of kin .After the claim of the vaults you will help me to travel to your country where we will invest the sum and arrange the sales of the diamonds and gold . You are free to ask any questions with regard to this transaction.
This should not be a doubt to you because I have all the document that cover it and the picture of the day my Late father was doing the deposit and during my late father and mother funeral.
Best Regards.
Harrison Kpolu.



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