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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: "Michael Bilora Kamara." (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:30:41 -0000
Subject: GOOD DAY.

Dear Sir/Madam,

How you doing over there? hope all is fine.
first and foremost i will like to tell you that i do believe you are God sent, because, i have be praying and fasting over this, that God should provide me with a sincere and reliable person with Godly mind.

I am Michael Bilora Kamara and the only surviving child of late Steve Kamara who traded in gold and diamond before his assassination during the Sierra Leone civil war. My Father , mother, and two brothers were assassinated and burnt beyond recognition by rebels after looting cash, diamonds and gold from my family but somehow spared my life.

I am contacting you in respect of the sum of $76,500.000.00 deposited by my late father in a security company before he died. This money is part of money he realized from the sales of diamonds and gold by him. I got your contact on a notepad details that a previous user forgot to delete on the pc I am using on the internet this morning and having been convinced from your profile that you are capable of handling a transaction of this magnitude, I decided to entrust you with this great task.

My father told me and my elder brother JULIUS KAMARA (who died on the 17th of December 2006 due to poor medical attention resulting from my inability to buy prescribed drugs for him) about these deposit with this security company in Ghana, and when we came to Ghana after his death we found the security company and I confirmed that the three boxes containing $25.5 MILLION DOLLARS each were still in their safe custody.

Due to our refugee status, we were not qualified to claim the deposit, more so before his death he gave me and my brother some documents and he said that this documents are the documents covering the deposit and that am the next of kin so with all this documents the truck boxes will be released to me and my brother.

I been the next of kin to the consignment so it was then i was told that at the time my late father deposited the truck boxes he made an agreement with the security company that its only his foreign business partners in overseas has the right to received the said truck box so they shows me the document and i go through mine and see also, so i told them that we will look for one of my late father partners in overseas and as soon as i talked to any i will let them know.

So i went and confided in a lawyer here in Ghana and told him everything so the lawyer confronted the security company and was also told the same thing so he told me to look for any of my late father business partners in overseas so i told him that i do not know any so he ask me to look for a trust worthy person that will assist me a God fearing person that will not run away with the funds before i got your email contact.

What I require of you to do for me now is your agreeing to this proposal and contact the lawyer to issue you with a change of ownership to claim the box from the security company here in Ghana(I beg for your utmost HONESTY assuring me that you will not betray me when the boxes is handed over to you.)I agree to give you 50% from the three boxes containing $76,500,000.00 for been my beneficiary in overseas that will stand as my late father foreign investor and the balance 50% will be mine and you will assist me to secure new documents that will enable me to travel down to join you in your country.

Please in your reply include your;
A: FULL NAMES
B: ADDRESS
C. Direct Cell Phone #

As these information will be required by the lawyer here in Ghana to draft the new change of ownership in your name as my beneficiary.
Hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks and God bless,

Yours Ever
Michael Bilora Kamara.

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