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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: "jGov ohnMomohSleone" <jgov_johnmomohsleone@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: john_momoh@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 19:46:13 +0100
Subject: From McJohn Momoh/Very Urgent

Dear Sir,
It is my humble pleasure to write you this important letter, irrespective of
the fact that we have not meet for the first time or known other before.
However Iam searching for a reliable and trust worthy person,firm, or group
of persons that can handle this confidential transaction with me. I am MR.
JOHN MOMOH,from Sierra Leone, son of the LATE CHIEF SWARANDEN MOMOH, the
former Minister of gold and diamond. In the past years my country has been
involved in a very horrible and bloody war in which so many lives and
properties were destroyed and many atrocities were committed against
humanity.

My father was killed during war, because of his support for the rebels
movement in Sierra Leone. He was accused of embezzlement of fund from the
co-operation and funding ethnic Mining forces, however, the truth and
evidence for the untold matter that saw his death was as a sacrifice for
restoration of peace in our country, before his death in my visit to him in
detention he disclose to me of an existence of USD$36.8m, 100 Kilos alluvial
Gold dust and 150 carat Nucal diamond in sealed boxes, which he kept in
underground vault of our villa in free-town, after the war, I hurried to the
villa as I am luck to survive with my junior sisters, as my parents elder
brothers and a senior sister were killed in the war, I still found the boxes
intact and decided to move it out of my country immediately with different
identity,withholding the trust of the real content for security reasons,
even the security house is not aware that the boxes contains money, gold &
diamond till now. We are presently in Nigeria as refugees status, although
the war has ended, but I considered it unsafe to go back to our country
since we have lost our parents brothers and sister and properties
confiscated by sierra Leone government and our present condition of
suffering here is unbearable. I am not exposed to the outside world and have
no knowledge in business for investment, for this reason.

I am soliciting for your assistance to help arrange for our residence in
your country and to help us invest this money wisely for our future living
as we have nothing else left than those consignments. I have the believe in
you and I am ready to go into negotiation/arrangement with you on terms of
sharing the proceeds from this consignments. The security house have agreed
to relocate the consignment for us to any of their branches in SPAIN,
HOLLAND, SOUTH AFRICA, & LONDON with guarantee I assure you risk free in
this transaction.I await your urgent response I will you give you further
information on the development of things and how we should go about it.
Yours sincerely
John Momoh

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