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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 Gwomaze Gnassingbe" <gwomaze05@walla.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:07:25 +0200
Subject: RESPOND URGENTLY

Dear sir,

I understand very well that this email may come to you
as a very big surprise but please kindly accept it as an
introduction of my self and my family and also a request
for your urgent assistance.

I am Mr.Gwomaze Gnassingbe Eyadema the first son of
late President Gnassingbe Eyadema of the blessed
memory. Although,Your contact information was made
available to me through an internet search for a
reliable foreign investor this morning.

Unfortunately, my father married three wife in which
my mother was the last wife and we are not in a good
terms with the other wifes which resulted that we have
to leave Togo to save my life, my mother who
was seriously sick now, moreso,the first wife's son
is now acting as a Togolese President.

During my late father's tenure as president of Togo
for 38years, he secretly deposited a sum of
$47,800,000.00 with a private security vault in Accra
Ghana, as a gift to his foreign partner suject to
the contract agreement indication between my father
and the security company.
.
These funds was packed in two trunk boxes by my father
and secretly declared the contents as an
unconditional/inrrevocable gift items to his foreign
partner abroad for.The storage company does not have
any single knowledge about the contents of the two
trunk boxes which they are holding.

Now,my family has mandated me to find a genuine
foreign investor outside africa who will be capable to
assist me in getting the funds out from the storage
and also help to place part of the total funds into
viable business investment through which the family
can start life again with this remaining recourses.

I would be glad if you can assist as my father's
foreign technical partner in the security company
here in Accra-Ghana to claim the deposited box with
reference to the deposit terms and conditions. The
deposit terms and conditions described that the
deposited trunk box was meant as a gift items to my
father's foreign partner abroad.

I would be grateful if you could be able to assist in
the remittance of this funds into your bank account by
swift transfer coupled with the investment project
which you is likely to be undertaken by you for
the benefit of the entire family both( your own
family)in future

Please,I would like you to understand that this money
we are talking about is in cash and I am prepared to
offer you a negotiable commission for your
assistance. Although,you can name your price if you
want as i do not have any problem about that,all I
request is your trustworthiness and sincerity in our
dealing.

Be rest assured that this is 100% risk free. The
Togolese government has no knowledge about this
money, including this country's government
(Ghana)where i am taking my political asylum.


I look forward to receive your urgent response as soon
as possible for more information.


Your's sincerely,
Gwomaze Eyadema ,
(For the family)

NB EMAIL:gwomaze2004@myway.com



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