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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: "Mohamed" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <marieagath22@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:08:07 +0100
Subject: HELLO (( DID YOU RECEIVE OUR FIRST MESSAGE ?????? ++.))

Hello ,

I personally beg you to read this message and help to respect the vow of my late husband, I know this message will be a big

surprise to you. But what could I do when I am in this condition and I don't have another way to communicate with you and share my pains. For the love and

sake of God ,even if you can't manage this transaction, you can as well help to respect the vow ( DONATION ) of my late husband , I know that you will not

betray the trust we have for you , please have mercy on my situation and do not betray us. Yes I don't know you in person and also you don't know me too

but by the grace of God , I got your contact through internet ,even if there are many scammers on internet but in this case , My late husband told me that

I should inform you that you will not spend or pay any upfront fees till you transfer the fund to your account for his wishes before he dead .
I lost My late husband few months ago, after a long illness during the first crisis in Libya,that was when the launches bomb in late President

Muammar Gaddafi house and the chemicals affected my husband, That was what lead him to dead ,he formally worked in your country and according to him , he

knows how the motherless children surfer in your country, he continue saying that all his wealth goes to motherless children no matter what. My late

husband was a man of confidence and an official representative of former President Muammar Gaddafi. He made me understand before he dead ,that he was

into diamond busness and he always a representative of late President Muammar Gaddafi during the transaction of buying diamonds and that was before the crisis in

Libya, Late President Muammar Gaddafi with my husband had another program of buying diamonds,
He gave my late husband millions of dollars for the purchase of another diamonds from the former rebel leader in Sierra Leone ( late Foday

Sankoh) and bodyguard of the president Muammar Gaddafi suddenly assassinated him during the crisis, my late husband decided our exile in Ghana, since he

knows that I am a citizen of Ghanain Africa. When we got home in Ghana, I made a very big mistake to explain everything to my senior brother, who is now

trying his best to kill me or take my life because he wants all the wealth and the whole fund as well ,this is why he abandoned me in his house ( in one of

his private room and he gave instructions to all the peoples in his family ( his wife, childrens etc) not take me to the hospital for treatment because I

refused to provide the fund to him or to our family, also that he hard my late husband saying that the whole fund is 496 MILLION DOLLAR USA , he is doing all these to be in possession of all property and the fund my late husband left before he gave up to the gost ;
No one is aware of this fund, the shock of death of my husband cost me heart problems. But thanks be to God almighty , through our Driver who escaped

me from the room and put me in direct contacts with a doctor who tried his best to give me life once more again but after all examinations and test here in the hospital in Ghana , Doctor made me realize that I have to face surgery, also told me to understand that I have 30% luck to survive this operation ( I HAVE FEW DAYS TO

LIVE IF I DID NOT FACE SURGERY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SINCE I AM VOMITING BLOOD ). After all examinations here in the hospital , they found out that the

operation can not be done here in Ghana but in England.
My brother continue forcing me to tell him where all funds and documents of the wills but not knowing that the whole fund is not here in Ghana but in another country in Benin Republic where my Driver is living presently . I welcome the fact that you are a trustworthy person in whom I can confide all funds to fulfill the wishes of my late husband , that is to say, fund orphanages (nurseries, centers for underprivileged children, etc. ), God did not give us any child, not even one

.Please, for the love of God, pray for me especially for the success of my surgery. As i am writing you, I handed all documents relating to this fund to my driver including your details contacts to handle it to the Notary because the Notary will assist you for the change of ownership of all the wealth to your name ,these will

facilitate you to be the rightfull owner of all the fund that will permit you to transfer the fund to your account because all the documents will be in your name as the new owner of the fund, remember it will be secret between both of us , I am saying this because of what my own Brother did to me just to have
the fund for him self.
Please keep this secret and manage these funds to help abandoned children , I will communicate the address and direct telephone number of the driver who is now in Republic of Benin since yesterday. He knows the whole procedure that you have to take that will permit you to regain possession of the funds.
Mr YVES MESSAN
Tel: 00229 624 621 46
E-mail: yvesmessan1968@yahoo.com
Since I am traveling tomorrow to LONDON for the operation, my driver is available to help because I already told him everything for the procedure you

will follow. Please keep this very quiet affair and pray for me for the operation.
Thank you and God bless you.

Madame Marie Agathe MOHAMED
Email. marieagathemo@gmail.com

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