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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "PHILIP KELLY" <philipk_121@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:54:22 +0100
Subject: CHARITY

Greetings in the name of the Lord,

I am Philip Kelly The younger brother of late Bishop John Kelly of
Liberia.You may wonder how I got your contact; it is by the grace of God. I do
not want to go into details of how I got to know you. Before I contacted
you, I fasted and prayed over it. It was through God guidance I was able to
contact you.

Right now as I am writing to you I am in hiding because of the past and
present leaders of Liberia haunting for my life. They pushed away
through my brother late Bishop John Kelly about 350kg of gold and $50m (Fifty
million United States Dollars) cash, which he kept in a security, cave in
Ghana. So my dear please I will be glad if you can help me.

I would happy if you can go and claim the gold dust and the 50 million
UD$ distribute the proceeds to charity and the less privileged. Please keep
this confidential. If you are not interested no problem but if you are
interested please send me an email soonest.

I would then direct you to a consultant who would assist you with the
security code that I am going to give you. Please do furnish me with
your telephone numbers so that I can be able to talk to you and give you
more details. I am waiting for your urgent response.

God bless you.
Philip Kelly



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