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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: MR MARTIN GIDEON GONO <martin.gono88@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: martin.gono@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:38:47 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE

Greetings to you,

It is with respect and honor that I address you this letter so do not be surprised to receive a letter from some one you do not know besides that your contact has been found by the right source. This letter will come to you as a huge surprise, but I'd have a long way to determine the future and continued existence of my family. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Martin Gideon Gono. The daughter of the governor of the Central Bank of Zimbabwe (Dr. Gideon Gono). My ordeal started in immediately after the death of my mother in the morning of February 8 2007, my mother was killed by a group of Rebel.
I got your contact at the Consulate of Tunisia here in London. I've actually choose among the various companies listed in the yellow page because of the prayer I made to Allah to provide me a truthful man, honest and trustworthy, and above all able to help me in investment.

I feel a great need to share with you the situation in the family that causes this proposal, I want to ask assistance to find an area of ​​investment that we are profitable. I send you this business proposal which we will all benefit, it took us me and my brothers the will and determination that this proposal be sent to you with the belief that you understand and appreciate my intention and I hope that you will not betray my trust!
My mother was murdered because of political problems in Zimbabwe and before her death she had won a government contract for a very large sum, I can not tell you how much this letter because of my current problems! Because after his death, for the sake of my little brothers and suffering she undergoes, I remembered she did all this just to secure our future, I have told the government that I did not know or she had kept that money! While the government has seized all investments that my parents had in Zimbabwe.

Fearing for my life, and my brothers, we are refugees in Nigeria. This is after I leave for London seek political asylum. I am the first in the family, so two boys and a girl, the Zimbabwe government has launched legal action against our family and my brothers fled to Nigeria and since that time they have endured much suffering, and as I am the only beneficiary of the richness of our mother, I would put my little brothers from want and safe.
I choose Tunisia because they made me understand that Tunisia is a virgin.

This is the big secret that I wear, my mother had made his fortune in GHANA COMMERCE BANK, Accra (Ghana) a very large sum, my name as the beneficiary for our entire family. So our family decided that we could transfer the sum (6.7m Dollar) Six million Dollar expensive to invest and help us install our family, so please, this confidential letter! I ask you in the name of Allah contact me as soon as possible. My concern today is to bring my brother home to find a profitable domain and beneficial for all of us, so it is your responsibility to advise us on what you think that we will be profitable and neither I nor my brothers have a good idea to investment, it is your responsibility to advise us on what you think and be profitable for you and for us.

We are available to offer you 20% percent of the total sum as compensation for your effort after the transfer of this fund and another by 10% percent for all
your expenses and effort.
I await your reply, thanks.

Martin Gideon Gono.



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