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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: "Mr. Emannuel Mensah" <mr.emmanuel_m@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:17:31 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Let us do genuine business if you are interested.........

I wish if you can get back to me: mr.emmanuel_m@yahoo.com

Dear Sir/Madam,

How are you? it will come to you like a surprised but this is true, i am general consultant manager of GATEWAY GROUP SECURITY COMPANY and was the charge of all the truck boxes that contain valuable items in the organization

my aim of contacting you was regard to a certain man who deposited his 3 metallic boxes that contained golds and money. 2 boxes was gold while 1 box contain this huge amount of money $4.5 million US dollars. And he died 4years ago i was expecting the family members to come for the claim of the boxes but none of them are where to be found, before then i verified vividly if there will be anyone to come for the claim i couldn't.

i am the only person that knows the man record and files also the duplicate of the deposit certificate which i issue he personally in the year 20th of January 2005 and all is data is with me.

the reason of contacting you i want you to stand as the beneficiary owner of items for the claims so that 2 of us will share it 50%, 50%. Because i see it as an opportunity for us to be rich. i will direct and guide you on how to go about for changing the information to you name. I also brought it to your notice that you will be the one to finance it, all the necessary documents required will be obtain from the ministry of justice, and i will back you up through the help of a lawyer.

The board of director of the company held a meeting of recruitment, because of this present Government that is in power. Because i will be handling over to the next manager because my tenor is over and this is opportunity they wanted to initiate new management.


immediately you comply to my mail we have to take full step ahead to the transaction but before the you will send me your vital information such as: international passport/ valid identity card followed by residential/office address, full name and telephone number so that if there is anything that you did not understand you can communicate me.

let us trust each other and agreed that will not reveal this to any person because is a secret business, please i beg you don't let the company to hear about this for it not to tarnish the image of my position so that as i am leaving the office let they be good record.

Finally after this transaction i will meet you to your country and we shall laugh good laughter. kindly call me on my phone +233546266291.

Thanks for your understanding.


my best wishes

Mr Emmanuel Mensah






















































































































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