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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: Gabriel Fode <fodega2008@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 07:17:04 +0100 (BST)
Subject: IS VERY URGENT BECAUSE OF OUR CONDITION HERE


From: Gabriel Fode,
Bujumbura Camp
Accra-Ghana,

Dear Sir,

l am sending you this letter so that you can understand me l am a Sierra-Leonean nationality; my name is prince Gabriel Fode, the only son of Late Professor.Ibrahim B. Fode,My father has one of the biggest gold and diamond mining company in Liberia and Sierra-Leone; he was an opposition party to the Liberian government as well during Mr. Charles Taylor, before the war finally came out

Before my father was killed, he deposited some huge amount of 
money here in Ghana with a security company, amount to USD30.5 million dollars, including gold diamond worth about 850,000 us dollars.

l and my only sister are seeking refugee here and we purposely came
so that we can claim our inheritance, which is our right. l have try worked
out the arrangements of getting this properties to be taken out of Africa to 
your country, behave already appear before the law court for a legitimate
arrangement. The court has granted us order to get what belong to us, but we need your assistance to stand as the beneficiary so that you can receive the properties on our behalf in your country. 

All l need from you is your trust, your reliability and trustworthy concerning this property, because this is only what left for us in our life all my father' s properties in Liberia are seized, this is only thing left for
us, we need a good person that will be to us like mother and we hope you will take us like your child. the fund will be transfer to you through bank to bank and the gold will be transfer through diplomatic courier services.

As soon as you receive the properties, we will make arrangement and agreement onhow to invest the money into a good business that will be profitable in the future, the gold and diamond will be sold under your advice for the benefit of us. we have it in mind to give you 20percent of the properties as soon the properties arrived in your country.

We are counting on you and looking forward to hearing from you quickly. Reply me through my email above.

Thanks and God  Bless you.
Yours faithfully,
Gabriel Fode,



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