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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: james govina <james_govina03@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: james_govina@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:29:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: from james govina


Attn:

My names are James Govina, i am the only son of former personal advicer to ousted liberian president Chales Taylor whom was ousted from goverment by rabel forces backed by ecomog,


Recent i lost my father to minigiattis and before his death he told me about funds stored in a security company in ivory coast, and i had to come down to cote d ivoire ,
sir i am contacting you so that, you could be my beneficiary on a huge some of dollars deposited in one of the security company in ivorycoast.
This money $4.5,million usd were deposited in my names as the next of kin to my father,and i want you to assist me to secure this money to your country for investment.

I may be young but i know what i am doing but all i want from you is to be my beneficiary and my guardian so that on arrival of the funds in your country you will instruct me on the best investment to invest on and i will be able to complete my education in your country under your guardiance.

I will give anything to get this fund out of here , because my dad gave me strict instructions not to invest these funds in africa because of the high rate of corruption and low economic instability, i will be giving you 30% of the funds to you for your assistance. In my next write up to you i will be giving you the contacts of the security company.


Thanks
James Govina

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