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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: "Dennis robert" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dennisrobert18@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:07:53 -0700
Subject: DENNIS ROBERT

My Dearest,

Complement's I am Dennis robert, from liberia am 24 year old I have one sisters named bella she is 21 years old, I am the First born of my parent the name of my Mum is Mrs.Anne robert she died when she was 57years old, My dad name is Dr. John Robert we are from a royal family in liberia.

Well I know you don’t know me and I don’t know you as well, but I contacted you by faith and due to the present situation that we are facing here, as times goes on you will get to know me well and my rest family.

We just arrive to Ghana through the(UN) liberia Bus, during the civil war in my country, rebels came to our palace and they were looking for my late father, Suddenly one of the rebel shot my dad on his chest, I and my Mum took my dad to the hospital for treatment the doctor said that before anything can be done that we most provide police report, before taking my dad to the police custody for doctor report on our way back to the hospital he died, that is how I lost my dad, before he give up he explain so many things to me as his only son.

Before the death of my late father he use to deal on gold and diamond stones, I have not disclose this to anyone and I also want you to keep it as a confidential, it is about my family and most especially how I can build a better future for my family, please I want you to keep this as a secret do not disclose to any other person, I lost My Mum on the mouth of Nov 17th 2004 and before she died she hand over some of my late father document to me, which my late father told me about, some years back my late father use to travel for contracts.

My late father had a business with one Security Company named ecosafe Security Company in Ghana , the document’s stated that my late father deposited three trunk boxes under Power Security Company, but the content is not reveal to anyone, my late father personally disclose the content of the three trunk boxes to me, My late father said That the two white boxes each contain $9 million Us dollars the other box contain 98kg of AU dust gold.

This is the reason why I contacted you, we need a foreign beneficiary who can help us to handle our investment in a foreign land, before the death of my late father he said that we should not invest the money and gold in West Africa, that many people in Africa are bad and they may kill us and take it from us, we want you to understand that if you help us I promise to give you 20% out of the total fund and 5% shall be aside for any expenses, we need to talk more better as time goes on I shall introduce you to the company to prepare all the legal document for the delivery of my boxes to you in your country, the company said that they also make doorstep delivery.

I shall wait for your kind email and I will direct you on how to contact the security company, all I need from you is honesty and truth and I promise you I shall never let you down, have a nice day and take care

Please try and contact me on this email address dennisrobert18@yahoo.com
Regard Dennis robert





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