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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: "Elizabeth Sanko" <maximilliaww@att.net>
Reply-To: <elizabethsanko25@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:33:59 -0000
Subject: Please I am waiting for your reply

I am Miss Elizabeth Sanko, 25 years old, a Sierra Leonean and daughter of late Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Sanko and I lost my parents in 2003 in a motor accident in Sierra Leone.

My late father was a diamond merchant before he died together with my mother in a motor accident when both of them were traveling in my late father’s car.

I also lost my only brother, Dennis, 4 years ago when some rebels busted into our house and fired aimlessly at the members of my family, killing my brother and 2 other relations at the spot when I went to School.

I decided to leave Sierra Leone to come to this country, Ghana, with the intention of retrieving my late father’s money which he had deposited in a finance and security company in this country before his untimely death in 2003.

In 2002, when I was only 17 years old and my late brother Dennis was 20 years old then, our late father had told us about his money (US$4,500,000.00) which he had deposited with a bank in Ghana and also another US$6,000,000.00 which he had deposited with a Security Company and he also told us that he decided to move the money out of our country Sierra Leone, due to the civil war going on in our country at that time.

My late father had accumulated all this US$10,500,000.00 from the sales of diamond and he showed us all the documents concerning the deposit of this money and where it was deposited in Ghana. He then put all the documents in his private safe.

I have already contacted the bank for the US$4,500,000.00 deposit and have made my plans of retrieving my late father's deposit known to them, and I have also presented the necessary documents to show a proof of ownership which they have also accepted.

When I contacted the Security Company where the US$6,000,000.00 was initially deposited by my late father, they told me that the deposited trunk box has been moved to their sister company in Spain, Europe for safe keeping because my late father before he died had already instructed the security company here to move the consignment over to their sister company in Spain, Europe, to avoid any possible confiscation or auction sale by the government as an abandoned deposit due to the long period of time the deposit had been in their custody in Africa..

I am now managing in a small apartment along the Kasoa highway and hope to travel abroad to continue with my education immediately I receive this money and all my travel documents are completed.


Considering my young age and inexperience in any type of business or investment, I am contacting you to assist me in transferring this US$4,500,000.00 from the bank and also retrieve the US$6,000,000.00, which is now in Spain, Europe, to your country and help me continue with my education and also assist me to use this money to make very good and lucrative investments in your country, due to my inexperience in any international business.

I am willing to offer you 30% of the total money as a compensation for your assistance.

Please I will not want to take the money back to my country, Sierra Leone because if I should take the money back to my country, my late father’s brothers will kill me and take the money away from me.

When my parents died my uncles seized all my late father’s assets and left only the house we were staying and when my only brother died 4 years ago, they said that I am a girl and I do not have the right to inherit my late father’s property, so they moved me from our house to a relative’s house.

They even stopped paying my school fees and changed me to a public school with low educational standards.

I really suffered a lot after the death of my family and this is why I want to use this opportunity to travel to a foreign country and brighten my future.

I am still a young single girl of only 25 years of age and I know I still have a very big future ahead of me.

Please, I need a trust worthy and sincere person to lead me through life since I do not have any parents or brother anymore and I am open and willing to negotiate terms and areas of compensation and joint investment to the benefit of all parties concerned.

I will be waiting to receive your reply email and please in your reply email you should give me your full names, address and telephone numbers so that I can introduce you to the Finance House as my late father’s foreign business partner who wants to assist me to retrieve my late father’s money and send me overseas to continue with my educational career and future investments.

Please reply to my private email. elizabethsanko25@gmail.com

Yours truly,

Miss. Elizabeth Sanko





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