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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: "williams OLUTOBIWA" <williams_olutobiwa19@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:15:35 +0000
Subject: PLEASE SIR, YOUR RESPONSE AND ADVICE IS URGENTLY IS HIGHLY NEEDED.

Dear Sir,
      I am very sorry to bother you with my plight. Please know that it not by mistake I am contacting you but by the special grace of God.
    After searching for someone I can lay my plight to, I’ve finally come with you after prayers to God. My name is WILLIAMS TUR   OLUTOBIWA from Liberia. I am 19 boy. My father and I escaped from our country at the heat of the civil war after loosing my mother and two of my senior sisters in
the war. They were raped and shot.
     My father established his cocoa business in Kumasi, Ghana. He was in ACCRA, to negotiate for the purchase a field when he was involved in an auto crash. There is a big problem here and the people here hate foreigners. He was hospitalised before he finally gave up on the 14th of JUNE 2006.His death has now made me an orphan and I am exposed to danger.
As I write, foreigners are attacked on daily basis.
     Before the unfortunate sudden death, my father called me to his side and told me he have  depoisted two truck boxes with  one total sum of 6.45 million dollars and the orather  one is containing 250kg of  of pure alluvia Gold dust(au) of 23karat   in a  secuirty company here in Accra-Ghana.
   He said he used me his only surviving child as his next of kin to the deposite and incase he
fails to make it that I should take care of myself and get someone to help invest the Fund for me and assist me to sale the Gold in orther truck box. I have all the papers with me here.
    I have confirm from the company all the papers he gave me on the deposit. I asked them to give me the money but they showed me the paper my dad signed with them that I must be 27 years old before they can hand over the consignment to me personally.
    They said I should send them my birth certificate which I did and they told me that am still under the age my dad signed with them.
     They told me that my dad made a provision that my guardian can manage the money on my behalf. Please this is where I need you pleased. I am suffering here without money and since he died, I have not gone to school again while there is money lying in there.
I have tried to locate any of my family but all to no avail and this is why I have decided to get one for my self to assist me in getting the money out.
        I will do all you want from me provided it’s within my reach and the will of God.
I trust you because I trust God never to lead me astray. Please help me.
        I have just told them that my guardian will contact them because I don’t want them to take advantage of me that i have no guardian.
      I want you to stand for me as my guardian and contact the secuirty company. Tell them you are my guardian and because of the crisis here, you want me to be with you where you can better take care of me. Tell them to transfer the Truck boxes to you immediately. Please help save my life please. I have no more money here and feeding is a big problem to me now. Please I trust you because I trust God. Again, As soon as theTruck boxes  has been transfered, to assist me with a letter of invitation that will make me get a visa to your country for residence inorder for me to continue my education and to invest the fund in a viable
business there.
    This money can take care of me there without any problem and please I need you to manage the fund for me, as this is my last hope in life. I am ready to do anything you want provided you help me.
You can Have 20 percent of the money and  20 percent of the Gold if sold and 10 ppercent any agent tha contact the buyer if you help me. If this is acceptable to you, send me a mail through my e-mail account: williams_olutobiwa19@hotmail.com   .so that I can know you more.
please l will be hoping to hear form you  Sir
God Bless you. Yours, Sincerely
  WILLIAMS TUR   OLUTOBIWA


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