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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: "paye yeanue" <paye_yeanue025@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:57:38 +0000
Subject: MEETING YOU IN GOOD FAITH

Good day Sir/Madam,
I must say it my pleasure to send you these email, how are you doing,
I hope you are doing fine, if so glory be to God, while I am Paye and my
sister name is Donyen, we are the children of the late Mr. Joseph Yeanue of
Liberia, who was killed by Charles Taylor former President of Liberia in a
Bloody coup, me and my Sister Donyen Yeanue were young then.
After our parent was killed, the only chance we heard was to run to Abidjan
where we have lived all this years, it all came to an existence that we
could not feed so we decided to come down to the refugee camp here in Ghana
to seek political asylums and to enable us mix up with the refugees to make
us live like brothers. Since we came to the camp the Ghana Government has
been doing a very great work by sending the refugees items to feed on, so
that is how we have been surviving here in the camp.
The Ghana Government sent The National Bar Associations Members. (NBA) of
Ghana to the refugee camp on assignment, so fortunately I saw my late father
lawyer and he told me that they came to the camp to pick the next of kin
which their parent deposited money in banks in Ghana, and that my late
fathers name was among the list of people that deposited money in one of
these banks in Ghana, So he said I should look for someone genuine and
reliable that can stand as a father and as my late father foreign
beneficiary so this money can be transferred to him, because our parent said
the money should be kept for safekeeping and onward transfer.
So that is why I have sent you these mail to ask you to stand in that chance
for me to enable us(me and my sister) get our late father money out of the
bank.
Please the lawyer said I should not include the following,
1, The name of the bank
2, The Amount involved.
3, The bank website,
4, My contact address and my personal number and my email address.
5, My international passport
6, The lawyers contact.
The reason he said I should not include them is because of ungodly act been
carried out by those Fraudster on internet because they may likely use them
for their ungodly acts.
Please I want you to stand in this chance so you can help us get this money
out of this bank, so you have to get back to me so that I can send you the
(6) items not included in my mail to you for further information and for
good understanding.
N.B,You can write me via email:
paye_yeanue@myway.com
it' important.
I hope to hear from you soon,
Regards,
Paye Yeanue.

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