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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: "oheane okeke" <okekeoheane01@livedoor.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:25:31 +0100
Subject: how are you doing


Hello
I am Okeke oheane from Liberia; I am the son of the late Mr. Dupery Okeke I
am now in Ghana in respond of my late father funds which was deposited at
Volta Golden Security Company Ghana.

I actually presented one Mr.Nikolai Ricardo a citizen of England to
the Volta Golden Security Company, where all legal process were been
completed and paid for the release of the two Trunk Boxes that contains the
10kg of Av Gold and $3.5M USD. Under Volta Golden Security Company where
security custody Bank of Ghana was fault made the guarantor.

Could you believe the worst event on earth happened on the day of
arrival of the two trunk Boxes in London where I was inform by the Security
company that my foreign nominated beneficiary Partner who is to received the
Boxes has a car accident and he is dead And the my boxes are pending now in
London waiting to me to present a new beneficiary they will deliver the
boxes to .Please I need you to kindly accept to be my new beneficiary and
trustee so that they can deliver the boxes to you in your country all
charges has been paid including the delivery charges all you need to you do
now is to do the change of ownership so that the documents will be in your
name so that it can enable them to deliver the boxes to you I have all
documents with me. Waiting to hear from you.

Thank you,
Yours truly,
Okeke oheane

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