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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: "Miss.Maryann Ngoga." <maryann_ngoga11111@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: maryann_ngo123@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:47:59 +0000
Subject: Greatings.

Miss Maryann Ngoga.
UNHCR Refugee Camp,
Bumari,
Senegal.

Dear Sir,

I know that this proposal might be a surprise to you
but understand it as an emergency from me because they
have killed my
father and mother and i need your sincere help in the
name of God in this bad condition of my life.

I am Miss. Maryann Ngoga, 18 years old from the
Republic of Liberia in west Africa, now am seeking
aslyum (refugee) in Senegal under
the(UNHCR). The only child of late Dr. Gerald Ngoga.

I got your contact from the Internet in Dakar for a
possible transaction of helping me claim my
inherittance. My late father was
the Managing Director of GlamourGold and Diamond Mine
company in (Monrovia,Liberia).

But he was killed along side with my mother during the
longing civil war and all his properties were totally
destroyed.

However, after their death I managed to escape with a
very important document -DEPOSIT CERTIFICATE of Family
Deposit valued at
(US$20.5M) Twenty million five hundred thousand U.S
Dollars in the deposit certificate. This deposite was
made by my late father as
family treasure in the Finance Company. The deposit
documents indicate me as the next of kin and the
contact information of the
finance company and the director to contact is in the
deposit certificate, if you are God fearing and honest
to help me without
cheating i can give you the contact for you to call
them and confirm the reality of my inheritance with
the security company.

Presently, I have the problem of getting a trust
worthy foriegn person that is competent in active
business e.g; real estate,
construction and manufacturing business or any
business that is lucrative to help me the following
way:

(1) Stand on my behalf in the finance company as my
extended relation the and beneficiary for the claim of
the inheritance from
the finance company since the finance company adviced
that I should present an individual or corporate
organization or charity
organization to claim the deposit for me as they
cannot release it directly to me because of my
inability to go there and due to my
refugee status in Senegal.

(2) Lodge the deposit into his/her account or company
account,pending my arrival to meet and stay with you.

(3) Invest and manage the money for me in a good
business pending my maturity after school, because i
need to go back to school,then
university so that i will not have a bad future as
illiterate.

(4) Help me to get my freedom from the refugee camp
and also secure my travelling documents to meet you in
your home as soon as the
money is in your total pocession.

(5) The most important point is that the person, will
be Godly, willing and ready to take me in as my
gardian till finish my
studies.

Furthermore, you can contact the company for
confirmation and I will talk to the Reverend Father
who is our refugee camp
coordinator to direct me on how to give you the letter
of authorisation on your name, that will enable the
finance company to
deal with you on trust as my relation and give you my
inherittance.

I am giving you this offers as mentioned with every
confidence on your acceptance to assist me or adopt me
as your Daughter and
manage the money for me.

Also,I wish you send me a reply immediately you
recieve this message because i am surfering here and
growing weaker and weaker
every day that passes.May God Almighty protect and
guide you as you help me out of this very bad
condition in which i am.I promise to
reward you with some amount that you and I would agree
on in our further communication.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours truly,

Maryann Ngoga.






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