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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: anikom_m@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:30:29 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?MY=20DEAR=2C=20PLEASE=20ASSIST=20MY=20FAMILY=20=21=21?=

From; Mr. Michael Anikom
Accra - Republic of Ghana.

My Dear,

Good day. This very Confidential request should not come to you as a surprise.
It is because of what is happening to my family urged me to contact you.

My name is Mr. Michael Anikom, the second son of Mr. George Anikom of Darfur
Sudan. At the height of the current political crises in my country, in which
the Rebel group of the opposition party in my country fights with the government
forces in their bid to take over the government of our country., my father
and my elder brother were brutally slained to a painful death on the 6th
of October 2005, in their struggle to protect some civilians who ran to
take refuge in our house.

My father, during his life on earth was a prominent business man who trades
on Diamond and Gold from some African countries and sales to foreigners.
He publicly criticized the crude policies and crime against humanity on
the civilians by the Rebel Forces, in which they amputate young boys and
girls for their failure to fight .I therefore decided to move my mother
and younger sister to Central African Republic, for refuge. My Father, before
his death, deposited the sum of Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars [ $ 5,.500 000 m] with a Gold and Security Company in the
Republic of Ghana. For a cash and carry Diamond an Gold business with his
business customers, which he never completed before he met his untimely
death in the night of that faithful day. In view of this, and as the only
surviving son on my father l decided to come to Ghana to conclude arrangements
on how to secure this fund.
I therefore humbly solicit for your sincere assistance to help me accommodate
this fund in your country, until l join you since my country is not safe
again for any transaction.

Now this is what l actually want you to do for me;

1. l want you to be presented to this Security Company as the person l contacted
to assist my family accommodate this fund,and they have promised to deliver
this fund
directly to your country or a closest country to yours where there is any
difficulty.
2.To finally assist my family in managing this fund in any lucrative field
in your country for at least three years after l must have joined you to
start a new life.

Please, l hope you will be a very honest and reliable person to deal with,
and also grant and view this very request with favour and much understanding
of our unexpected bad situation presently.And also bearing in mind the confidential
nature of this my request, l emphasize, please you keep every bit of it
to yourself so as to protect my familys future and yourself rendering this
help.

Thank you in anticipation of your response.You can also write to me with;
anikom@terra.com

Best Regards,
Mr.Michael Anikom.
+233-27-5172960.




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