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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: Marria Ngessan <marriangessan120@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: marriangessan100@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:08:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re:Reply me


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: marriangessan120@yahoo.com



- P.O. BOX 185,Buruberan Refugees Camp Ghana.Western Part of AfricaDearest one,We writing to you in a most desperate and pitiable situation in which we find ourselves. And is our pleasure to write you after much consideration, since we can not be able to see you FACE to FACE at first, please we need your kind Assistance.I am Miss. Maria Ngessan, the Daughter of late Chief Alfred Ngessan Nationality Sierra-Leone, I am Residing in Buruberan Refugees Camp Ghana Western Part of Africa with my only younger brother, Benjamin Ngessan , he is 20yrs while I'm 24. We are here due to my father's Nature of business and also war crisis in my country Sierra-Leone.Our father was a liability Cocoa and Gold merchant here in Ghana West Africa before his untimely death. After his business trip to Tunisia (Northern Part of Africa), to negotiate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest in Tunisia, a week after he came back from Tunisia, he had an accident with my mother of which my mo!
ther died instantly but my father died Eight (8) days after in a Private Hospital.On that fateful afternoon, we didn't know that our father was going to leave us after we had earlier lost our mother, but before he gave up to ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.He Our father, (OF BLESSED MEMORY) called me to his bed side while my brother Benjamin went to school, and my father told me that he deposited the sum of ($12.8m)Twelve Million Eight hundred Thousand US Dollars in a Bank here in Ghana.That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold business he wanted to establish in Tunisia, according to my father he deposited the money in a Bank using my name as the next of kin, He instructed me to seek for a Reliable, God fearing and Trustworthy business partner for our life time investment. Now we have succeeded in locating the deposit documents and the bank where this money is been deposited.Due to our inexperience in business here in Ghana, I am now seeking for your!
assistance to help us transfer this money out from here to your accou
nt so that we should invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business in your country in which you will suggest because we do not know much about gold and cocoa business.Me and my brother are willing to offer you 40% of the total fund if only you can help us out of our present predicament.The worst part of it is that our uncle is planning evil against us over this money because i refused to hand him over the documents covering this money, He has sold all my father's landed properties including his cars which Rightful belong to us and now he wanted me to hand him over the banking documents of my father in my possession which i refused.Now he said that he will have this money by all means even if it means killing us, so because of this we ran into the Buruberan Refugees Camp located here in Republic of Ghana Western Part of Africa, pending when this money will be transferred so that we can leave this country for our safety and further our education in your country.Please i !
am looking forward to hear from you.Thank You and God bless. YOURS SINCERELY, MISS MARRIA NGESSAN


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