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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: mkatesise001@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:33:11 +0100
Subject: We Need Your Help!


From: PRINCE MICHEAL SISE
REFUGEE CAMP,WESTERN REGION,ACCRA-GHANA.
REPLY TO OUR SECURE E-MAIL: mkatesise001@hotmail.com

Attn:Sir,

Compliments of the day!
I and my younger sister write to seek for your assistance; we got your
contact from a noble gentleman that came to our refugee camp who came to
give a seminar about AIDS whom we confronted that we are looking for a
God-fearing person that is when your data was given to us. First and
foremost I want to introduce myself to you. My name is Prince Micheal Sise
and my younger sister Princess Kate Sise a sierra leonean, my consignment
contains 18.6 million United States dollars and some quantity of gold,
which I cannot specify or quantify.

The consignments are presently with a Finance and Security Company in the
UK. The consignment gets to UK through the help of a U.N diplomat Campbell
K. Moore Jr., The fact is that Campbell K. Moore Jr. is supposed to have
delivered this consignment to a man called Richard Smith in States.

The week Campbell K. Moore Jr is suppose to deliver the consignment to him,
when he got to States after clearing the consignment from the Airport, he
call Richard Smith to tell him the description to is house for the delivery,
but his wife answered the phone call and told Campbell K. Moore Jr., that
her husband Richard Smith hard a fatal car accident which lead to his death
some few days back.

Campbell K. Moore Jr., now have to send am email to me and my sister
stating his experience with our consignment in the states so we asked him to
return the consignment back to London for a safe keep pending when we will
be able to see a God fearing person who will assist us receive the
consignment and keep our share of it a private account in our names and make
arrangements for us to leave the refugee camp and start a better and normal
life in his country and will be made to father us as his or her
children.

Your role is to clear the consignments from the Finance and Security Company
and safe keep the money and the Gold while you will make
arrangement to get us out of the Refugee Camp this should be done when you
MUST have cleared the consignment in your name and deposit or lodge into
your personal account or a private account for the whole family, ours and
yours. I shall give the name and full contact address of the Finance and
Security company when we are in receipt of the acknowledgment of this
proposal from you.

Please, get back to us immediately for more details on the way forward, We
await your urgent response.
Thanks and God bless you.

Prince Micheal Sise and Princess Kate Sise

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