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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: judith.abbey1@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:24:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: HELLO MY DEAR,CAN YOU BE TRUSTWORLDY TO ME,


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: judith_abbey1b@yahoo.com



- HELLO DEAR,My name Judith abbey. My father died two years ago. I am a national of Ghana West Africa. I come from the eastern part of Ghana where there are a lot of Gold and Diamond concessions. My late father was the chief of the town where I come from in the eastern part of Ghana.As a chief of my town, my late father was entitled to some amount of Gold being contributions from all the small scale mining companies in my town. This Gold is a price paid to the stool and clam to my town. As a chief of the town, my late father received a lot of Gold and Diamond being paid to the chief, stool and clam of the town.This gold and diamond accumulated up to about 600 kilogram and 200kg respectively, which is worth about $13,200,000.00USD and $6,000,000.00USD respectively. Before the death of my father he deposited this gold and diamond with a security company here in Accra-Ghana-West Africa where i live presently. He made this deposit with the intention of selling the gold later on to make a good investment into a lucrative business venture for his entire family.But unfortunately, he died without achieving this goal. Because of his position at that time as a chief, he deposited the gold and diamond with the security company on behalf of a foreign partner abroad. He did that with the intention to travel abroad later to look for a reliable and God fearing person to stand in for him as the foreign partner on whose behalf the gold and diamond was deposited. He did not give any specific name of the foreign partner on whose behalf the gold and diamond was deposited. He simply told the security company that the consignments belong to his foreign partner abroad and his partner will come to claim it later on as such he was issued documents to cover it. He did all these so that the security companywill not know that he owned all these consignments.Now that my father is late, I decided to make claims of these consignments.Upontendering in our claims to the security company, they demanded we need to get someone from abroad since the consignments were deposited in the name of a foreign partner to enable us claim the consignments.Now my late father did not give any specific name of the foreign partner on whose behalf he deposited the consignments so we have to look for someone abroad to stand in for us as the foreign partner on whose behalf the gold and diamond were deposited. Then all the documents will be changed into that person’s name and all the consignments will be released to that person.I have decided to travel abroad to sell the gold and diamond and invest the money into a lucrative business venture. Please I am pleading with you to stand in for us as the foreign partner on whose behalf my late father deposited the gold and diamond so that we can claim these consignments from the security company. I promise 10% of the total amount of the consignment after a successful claim. It is very simple, every document will be changed into your name and the consignments will be transferred to you in your country then I will travel to your country for you to help me sell it and the money will be invested into a lucrative business venture.You are assured of a free, fair, transparent and legal transaction backed up with legal documents.Please reply and tell me your mind so that we shall go on with the necessary procedure to claim the consignments. From the security company.Waiting for your urgent responseThank you,


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