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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: "anani koffi" <akoffitg@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:16:31 +0000
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED !!!

Dear Friend,

I am very sorry trying to trouble you in this my time of need.I am ANANI
KOFFI, the only son of Mrs. Susana D.F. Ogene, who was the second wife of
Mr.Ogene Koffi,an INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS DISTRIBUTOR here in Lome-Togo.I
am from East side of Togo in Africa,but presently schooling at the
university of Lome-Togo,I am a 1st year student,I am 24 years old. My mother
was married to my father on the 6th day of May 1977, providentially Gave
birth to me and regretably no female child.

My mother died when I was 2 years old, she died with her unborn baby when
she was delivering her 2nd child and my Dad died last month after terrible
attack from long time Cancer,which dealth with him for numerous years and
lastly killed him last month after prescription. My Dad called his wife and
me with his personal attorney and gave me some of his wealth for my
endurance and he told the Lawyer to make change of ownership to some
documents to my Name,the rest was given to my stepmother because my Dad's
special doctor has told him in advance that he will not live for the next 5
days.Immediately after the mourning of my Dad,My step mother and my Dad's
Personal Attorney unite together and distorted almost all the documents that
was given to me by my Dad for my durable continued existence. They tainted
the documents to the name of her two sons.Now, the one that makes me to
blubber and run away from my dad's house is the deposit certificate,which
was issued to my dad on the day he deposited the sum of 3,200 000.00 united
state Dollars(Three million two hundred united state dollars) on the 28 day
of September 2004 in Commercial Bank of Ghana.

He also said that he diposited the money as the family wealth and used my
late mother name to Deposit the money as his wife for next of kin.

Dearest one, I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this
regards Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded, so that I will
know how i can come over to your country.I contacted the Bank and i was told
that i will need to make change of ownership and i will need to obtain about
two documents from the Ecowas High Court of Justice in Accra Ghana.The
Director that i contacted at the commercial Bank told me that i will need a
lawyer to do that on my behalf since it's family inheritance which my Dad
told me so,now i can not contact our family lawyer and i don't want go to
the Bank my self,also i don't have money for the lawyer and documents.Please
i want your assistance in this regards please.
Now permit me to ask these few questions as follows:-

1. Can you honestly help me as your Brother ?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. Are contented with 20% of the total funds ?

My dad personally gave the deposit certificate to me in the presence of my
step mother and his personal attorney, they are now trying to take away from
me the deposit certificate which is the only paper among the documents that
was particular given to me for my survival. She is doing all these things to
me because of her position in the administration.
Before my Dad died, he called me confidentially and told me not to mishandle
this 3,200 000.00 united state dollars (Three million two hundred united
state dollars) because I don't have any other person who will continue to
take care of me in the prospect. He hence advised me to search for a God
fearing person who will aid me to claim this money as soon as I graduate
from the University.But as things stands now,I necessitate to claim this
money before my stepmother get hold of the deposit official document from me
and claim the money.

Currently, I need your help. I want you to stand as the receiver of this
money as our family friend and so that the Bank will release the money to
you and then you will deposit the money in your personal account there in
your country so that I will have some money back from the whole amount and
find a way out to your country, because if I continue to hang around here,
she might decid to slay me just to have the deposit certificate.
If you can help me to save this money in your custody without betraying me,
then I can abscond the whole amount of money for you so that you can invest
it into business, but that can be under the condition that you would take
20% of the amount for participating in this project bearing in mind that you
would assist me relocate to your country to invest my own share of the
project with your full guidance.

If you are contented with these states of affairs,you can contact me
back.But if you are not happy with these state of affairs please inform me
so that I can straight away search for another person for the assistance.
Please you can call me via my mobile number,+228-920 66 79,i can give you
contact of the bank both their Tel/Fax and Email.
Yours
Anani

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