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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "MARIE ANKOH" <marieankoh14@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:49:35 +0000
Subject: hello

                       STRICTLY CONFIDENTAIL

Attn;sir/Madam,
 
This letter will really come to you as a big surprise Mean while I got your contact here in Cotonou-Benin for a reliable and trustwhorty person like you,
We are alive today with the slit strike of luck and by the grace of
God. We lost every thing before coming to this country, where we are presently staying in Cotonou Ripublique Du Benin.
I choose you after praying to God Almighty for assistance. I know that i have not met with you before and you have not seen me too, but I must beg for your assistance since this is our last hope.I want you to stand for us as our late father's foreign business partner and beneficiary for
me and my brother to our late father’s funds deposited with a
Security Company here in Cotonou, Republique du Benin for safe
keeping, Before his death in the hands of the rebels in our Country Congo, the rebel slaughtered our beloved father and mother without mercy.Our father was the former Director General Congolese National Petroleum Cooperation, he got this money, and he deposited it in a Vault of a Security Company for safe keeping in Cotonou Benin,before his death.The reason we solicit for your help is that the Security Company can only release this consignment to anybody whom I Identify as my late
father’s foreign business partner, who will help us to manage the fund, this is my late father’s Agreement with the Security Company at the time of deposit, With our present situation in
Cotonou-Benin,I really beg you to stand for me and my brother as ourlate father’s foreign business partner to come and claim the consignment as the new beneficiary.Please come to our rescue because we are traped and we can not travel outside Africa without this money,most reason we solicit for your help. Again I must make it known to you that the security company did not know the real content of the consignment because my late father did not declear it to them as money rather he decleared it to them as a photographic equipments that belongs to his foreign business partner.Please help us we are surffering too much here
in benin, no father, no mother,no good medical care, no
relation,
The amount involved is ($13,000.000.00 USD) (Thirteen
Million US Dollar).
Please if you have human symperty for orphans and you want to help us, please I would appreciate it better if you can drop your full name and address, your private phone and fax number, which I can always reach you.
I really want you to assist us because we dont know anything about international business investment so that both of us can work as business partners in claiming this consignment
from the security company for investment at your country.
As soon as you accepted to work with me for mutual benefit for all and your share on this transaction will be 15% of the total sum,
Note also there is no risk to it.
Should I be expecting your positive, and urgent>Responses ;you can reply me
throuhg this email address :
marie_ankoh@myway.com
Yours Loving Once,
Marie Ankoh
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