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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: myfamily.com <join@myfamily.com>
Reply-To: dennishodges28@gmail.com
Date: 17 Feb 2010 03:42:37 -0700
Subject: dennis hodges has invited you to connect on 'hodges Family'

dennis hodges has invited you to connect on 'hodges Family':

"From Mr Dennis Hodges ( dennishodges29@gmail.com )


I am very happy to contact with you today and I pray God will bless you and be with you all the time, I am very happy that God lead me to you ,been a father and I know you will lead me to the right road and best school where I will further my education, As soon as the security company deliver this consignment to you.

I am from Ghana West Africa, but ever since my parents passed away, I have been staying at our church promises.

I am an orphan now who need help that is the why I contact you to see if you can render me a help from your country .because my conditions here is too bad. I don't have brothers or sisters but I have uncles, they have not been fair with me since the death of my father, all they care about is sharing my father's properties among themselves, saying that am just a little Boy so won't know what to do with those things, when I tried to protect them, they started threatening my life and send me out of family house, that is why I ran to this church to stay where they cannot know my way about until I leave this country. I have my inheritance that my late father left for me before his death, It is a consignment trunk box that contains the sum of $9.5Million USD with 140 kilo gram of Gold , but he kept the consignment under SECURITY COMPANY ,Here in this city.

The consignment itself was my late father’s life saving which he made from the cocoa business and Gold he established here in Accra before his death.beside,my father before his death was a very good Christian and has never had hand in any illegality.

After contact with you i do understand that you will be in position to help me in my present predicaments which i found myself, I need you to stand as a guardian to me and provide some necessary things to back me up in your place like bank account where the money will be safe transferred immediately the security company deliver the consignment to you and arrange for me to come over to your country immediately so I can continue my education and live a good life because my condition here is very critical. Because i want to come over to your Country and gain a good care which i have been missing since i lost my parents.

The good thing that happened to me is that they are not aware of this consignment my late father deposited with the security company. which my late father arranged to move abroad into his foreign partners for his investments overseas but according to the security company director, he told me that my late father could not give them any record of his foreign partner before his untimely death, So they instruct me to provide them with the record of my late father's foreign partner so they can deliver the consignment to the person.
Please In your return to this letter includes your Full Name home address and telephone number.

Upon receipt I will submit your information to the security company as my late father foreign partner who they will deliver this consignment to his country. Once these needed information’s are received, I will try to speak with you on phone before taken your details to the company.

I attach the prove deposit documents that the company issued to my late father below this message, and I still attach my photo's, I will like you to include all your details in your next response, If possible after reading this message.

I will wait to receive your details. And if you have any question to ask, please feel free to ask me and i will be very happy to answer it. See my photo's and the prove deposit documents below this message.

i will like you to call me through this telephone number +233 241 341 506

( dennishodges29@gmail.com )



Dennis Hodges

May God bless you?

Yours Sincerely,"

Join 'hodges Family':
https://www.myfamily.com/invite/signup?in=s8wK5ZYNH5LoojkcwzJn4Q

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