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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: "c tidwell" <htid@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:57:45 -0400
Subject: reply



Please do not bother me again.  You e-mailed me wanting to invest in my company now I see it is only a scam.
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John Kumara Fornah.
Go moa Refuges Camp.
Accra Ghana.
West Africa.
Dear Hollis C. Tidwell,
Thank for your urgent reply to our request,I hope this email will find you in good health,
First of all by Introduction My name is John Kumara Jim Fornah Jnr born 1980,From the Diamond Rich town of Mende western Freetown Sierra Leone west Africa
Iam the son of late Dr Jim Fornah, my late father held a lot of respected and envious position in the government of President Tejan Kabbah before his untimely death after a brief illness,
He my Late father was the formal bank governor of my country Sierra Leone, he was also the finance and President Tejan Kabbah economic advisers. My late fathers because of his position acquire lots of properties through diligent, God fearing and handwork.
Before the outbreak of the eight years Brutal civil war in my Country Sierra Leone, My late father sold our family land which was rich in diamond deposits to an American Mining company ,Because of the rebels brutality in my country, As the rebels were looting banks, finance houses and evn breaking the national vaults. My late father to safeguard the fund Hurried went to Accra Ghana and Deposit the Fund $32 Million United States Dollars In a Security company. My Late father whom was an asthmatics patient, died of cancer of the heart in 2001, in the United States of America on a Government Sponsored medical treatment .You can go to this link to confirm this information’s http://www.cmetfreetown.org/Media/Print/Articles/CSS_Articles/NewVision/NV-011023-02.stm
My late fathers corpse was Buried in our country home in Mende Western Freetown Sierra Leone, After The Burial of my late fathers the rebels West side boys held Our Entire family hostage until the Government secured our realized, Due to the break down of law and order, as the rebels were killing everybody recklessly, we left Freetown sierra Leone to Accra Ghana, We arrived Ghana through a boat with other Refugees, We are presently in Go moa Refugee camp Accra Ghana as refugees.
My Mother tried to locate the company to confirm this deposit and thank God She found the company, we then presented the documents to the director and told him that we wants to claim the deposited metallic Trunk Box in their custody.
The Director of the security company confirmed that they do have such Deposits with them based on the documents we presented to them, He went on to say Madam as you can see even from the agreement we can not release the Mettallic trunk box  to you without the concept of your husbands foreign partner, this is why we contacted you so as to stand for us as my late fathers foreign partner and also our proxy man to get this metallic box out of the Security company and transfer the fund to your country for any good investment which you will recommend to us,
We have resolved to give you 20% of the Total fund $32 Million united states Dollars as your compensation for helping us. What matters to us is trust, secret and confidential, as nobody else knows about this fund except My Sister, My mother, you and I now. Even the Security did not know the content of the trunk metallic box because the content were declared/documented  as artwork from the national museum.
Reply in my Mothers secured email address:Reply to my secured email address(drmrspaulinaconfidence@yahoo.com ) get back to me for details of work.
John Kumara Fornah.
Tel: 233-24-365-4410.
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