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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: noha mensah <nohamensah22@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:20:34 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PLEASE HELP US.


Dear Sir/Madam,

Pardon us for using this communication media contacting you, it is due to time on our side and we feel it will be the faster way to reach you. Please bear with us.

We are Noha and Joy the only two children of late Gold merchant Clifford Alpoh who died on 16th October 1999 as result of food poisoning by one of his business associates.

Sometimes earlier before the death of our mother two years ago, i.e. before our father’s death, my mother disclosed to us that our father has a huge sum deposited with a prime bank here in our country which he intended to invest outside Africa.

Frankly speaking mom did not disclosed to me how much on this deposit as she maybe taking me as a small child then.

On this date 16th October 1999, it was afternoon as we came back from school, our father’s driver told us that our father felt critically ill and was taken to a Specialist Hospital. Joy and I requested to see our father, but before we were taking to Hospital, he was reported dead in about 45 minutes before our arrival.

After a year, we proceeded to this bank to claim this money with our uncle and the bank manager told us that this deposit is no more with his bank, that before our father’s death, this fund was transferred to Ghana for some purposes.

This man directed us to our father’s attorney who finally showed us by records that this money was truly transferred and was re-deposited to an escrow account with Security Bondage Company in Ghana. But we have no access to this deposit, only our father’s foreign partner named on the deposit bond is whom my father entrusted with the power to oversee our welfares and to invest this fund on our behalf. He would have appropriate access on this fund until we have good business knowledge.

We made series of trials to locate this our father's partner whose name is in the deposit bond, but without success. On one of our trials to get to our late father's partner earlier this year, we found that he was also dead with his family quite some times now in an air crash on July 2000 Concorde plane that crashed into Hotelissimo near Paris. Please you can see the link below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
This very situation kept this very deposit tight and pending with this Bondage Security Company without us having access to it.

But finally this case has been resolved last week on last jury trial on this case at ECOWAS HIGH COURT with this Security Company. Court has ordered this Security Company to procure another new certificate of deposit of this fund on our name, which my sister is right in Ghana now for all the process with the Security Company.

Secondly court ordered them to accept before the court of law, that upon our presentation of new partner whom we wish to work with according to our late father's bond with his late partner, this deposit should be released to us without any impediment.

Please we are seeking for your acceptance/cooperation to present you as our partner, to enable us withdraw and transfer this money to your country and also greatly work with us on investments with our share on a lucrative investment which will put stop to our present sufferings here, we also wish to inform you that we desire to reside and continue our education in your country.

Please indicate your willingness to assist by writing us back or calling for more information on this very matter. Here is my direct number + 228 920 59 32.

We will highly appreciate you calling.

We are willing to offer you 20% of the total money. I know you will want to know how much is this total money in question {US$32.8 United States Dollars}.

If you can assist us and work with a Godly heart from the beginning of this very transaction until the successful end of it, in accord to our late father's wish with this money after withdrawal from Ghana, which is investing this fund outside Africa for our better future, you will be entitled of 20% as we have indicated above.

Looking forward to hear from you soonest as you can.

Thanks,
Noha and Joy.



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