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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: Johson Titoe <johntoe300@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mrjohnsontitoe@myway.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:38:20 -0600
Subject: HELLO DEAR FRIEND!!!



Good Day Is my pleasure for writing you this letter, hope you are fine? I want to use this opportunity to introduce myself well to you,I am Johnson Omoha Titoe,the son of a late chief Namoha Titoe of Sierra Leone, I came to know you in the course of my search for a reliable and God fearing partner and I decide to contact you because I believe you are a reputable person and I felt you can help us over this confidential matter.I count on your integrity and honesty to be able to handle this business. I have one truck boxes that containing $23.5million U.S DOLLARS which is already in LONDON . We are ready to give you 20% from the total money because that was the initial agreement we have with my later father partner, Mrs. Juliet Lerman, the consignment is right now in LONDON . my Late father business partner Mrs Juliet Lerman, who was to receive this consignment containing the money could not be located at the long run. We have been trying to reach her for the past three days since the consignment arrive LONDON,but there is no response and we don’t really know what happen to her so we need your help to receive this consignment on behalf of the family. Please be honest to us we are counting on you. The director of the security company just inform us yesterday that if we can not provide our father business partner within this period of time, that the consignment we be return back to GHANA, so we need you to stand as my family trustee to receive the consignment in LONDON. If you are willing to help us receive this consignment, all you just have to do is to contact the shipping company here in Ghana so that they can give you instruction to their agent holding the consignment in LONDON . If not for God they would have return the consignment back to Africa but God has been helping us. Please reply my mail so that I can give you the contact of the shipping company to discuss with them on the release of this consignment to you,all you just have to do for us is to receive this consignment. And that reminds me the shipping company does not know the content of the boxes, because it was deposited as a family treasure. private email:mrjohnsontitoe@myway.comTHANKSJohnson Omoha TitoeFor the family

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