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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: Joyce Atomu <j.atomu4real@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:14:08 -0700
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT FOREIGN PARTNER


Attn:Laurie McEnearney,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since telephone
communication can not be suitable enough to communicate to you at first.

Being the only daughter of my father, late Michael Atomu from LIBERIA, My
father was limited liability Cocoa and Gold merchant in LIBERIA before his
untimely death.

After his business trip to GHANA ,to negotiate on a cocoa and Gold business
he wanted to invest in Ghana.

A Week after he came back from GHANA, he was attacked with my mother by
unknown assassins, which my mother died instantly but my father died after
five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon.

I didn't know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my
mother.

But before he DIED, it was as if he knew he was going to die. my father, MAY
HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE he disclosed to me that he deposited the sum
of $18,000,000,00 US Dollars (EIGHTEEN MILLION DOLLARS) IN GHANA.

That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold company he wanted to
establish in Ghana.

Though, according to my father he deposited the money in security company
and handed to me all the relevant documents of the deposited Box and
instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy partner for a life
time investment abroad.

Now I have succeeded in locating the security company here in Ghana. The
name of the security company is Coastal Security and Finance Company in
GHANA.

Therefore, I am soliciting for your assistance to help me get this Box out
from the security company. If possible you can transfer the fund to your
account so that we can invest it in any meaningful/lucrative business in
your country because this is my only hope and source of livelihood.

I am anxiously waiting to hear from you so that we can discuss the
modalities of this transaction.

All informations needed is your personal telephone / fax number, your home
address and your personal photo.

Please kindly contact me through the above email address immediately for
more discussion.

Thanks for your kind attention.

Yours sincerely
Joyce Atomu.

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