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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: "Juliet Richardson" <jully2sweet10@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:49:15 +0000
Subject: Hello--This is Juliet From Interpals.net--Please I Need Your Help.

Hello
How are you today, I hope you are ok, I saw your profile in
www.interpal.net, your profile sound nice and i am intresteded in knowing
more about you, I will tell you about my self and asking for your help
mainly. My name is Juliet Richardson the eldest child and daughter of late
Chief Mallon Richardson, My father was a very rich and traditional African
and made a lot of money from the sales of Crude Oil. we are five in my
family are we are all from Liberia.

On the 7th day of May 2003 he was on his way back from off shore he was
attacked by some rebel fighters who killed him. We inherited the sum of
million (Nineteen Million U.S Dollars) from my father, Before the death of
my late father, we had already flew from our country(Liberia) to Abidjan
because of the war in our country where i lost my little sister, and after
the death of my late father, My father lawyer did came to meet us in Abidjan
and then he gave us my father death certificate and document that stated he
deposited his fund with a bank in ghana, for safekeeping and transfer.

So we did leave Abidja and flew to Ghana for the claim of the fund, when we
came to Ghana we located the bank and presented all the legal documents to
the bank, but the bank refuse to give to us the fund of my father, they told
us in the bank that my father has already registered the fund to be transfer
to a forign partner, so we speek to the head of treasury depatment of the
bank and he advice us to look for a forign parter to help us contact the
bank for the claim of the fund.We need you to help us receive this funds as
our foreign partner, you help us contact the bank, to stand for us before
the bank as the beneficiary of our fund and then the bank would agree
transfering to you.we would then have to come to your country and start a
new and happy life there, we do want you to help us invest the fund in a
life time investment in your country since i am still a young girl of
26years without business idea and my brother is only 22years, My mum will
give to you 20% of the total sum of money for your help, and my mother did
said that before this fund can be release or transfer to you, that you will
have to sign an agreement with my family so that we can trust you cause you
know you have not meet you before.

I know you may surprise you but it the is truth and no one expect you knew
that we are still alive and in Ghana that is why you must keep this as a top
secret to yourself alone, because we for safety of our life my mother said i
should tell you and all the legal documents covering this fund are with my
mother. Please we need your help to get our fund and leave Ghana and start a
new and happy life, We pray and wait to hear from you and then i will send
to you the legal document that was given to my father by the bank when he
deposited the fund with them for your view. Bye for now and hope to hear
from you soon.
Please this is my other email address jully2sweet10@yahoo.com
Best Regards
Juliet and Family


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