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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: "Joshau Dankwa" <joshua.dankwa@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: joshuadankwa@aol.com
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 16:41:32 +0200
Subject: Very important message

Dear sir,

My name is Joshua C. Dankwa, a 25 years old man and a citizen of Southern Sudan. I am the son of the late Chief Moses Dankwa who worked as an expatriate engineer with the foreign partners in Sudan in the Oil Sector. But unfortunately he
was killed by rebels during the political turmoil in 2006 in my country Sudan.

Having said the above, and in my search for an honest businessman, who I can probably work with, I stumbled unto your email contact throug the African Trade Union Directory here in Ghana. And I therefore decided to contact you, in the hope
that you might be of help.

My late father left behind my mother, myself my siblings. Presently, we are taking refuge in Accra-Ghana under the watchful eyes of the United Nation's intelligence network.

My reason of contacting you is that we need your assistance in retrieving a one valuable sealed trunk box worth ($8,750,000.00) marked as family treasure deposited with a security company here in Ghana by my late father for safe-keeping. I and
my mother and siblings have concluded arrangements to make claim to the sealed trunk box from the company for the benefit of our family. Hence, we need your assistance to stand as a proxy, front or foreign partner on behalf of my family. All
rights of claim as well all legal documentations shall be transferred to you if you kindly accept our humble proposal.


In case you oblige us our proposal to you, please be mindful of the fact that we would prefer that you keep this foregoing very confidential at least for now. If all said is done, we already have it in our plan tentatively to relocate to europe. In which
case, we would appreciate if you can help us invest the funds in a viable business venture overseas.

However, we would be open to your candid suggestions, advise and concerns, above all to negotiations.

I shall await your urgent response to enable me give you the full details. Possibly to follow up this letter in a more comprhensive manner. Should you have any questions, please feel free to ask me, and I shall be very willing to answer you as honest
as possible.

Best regard,
Joshua C. Dankwa
joshua.dankwa@yahoo.com
joshuadankwa@aol.com

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