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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: posting link <posting1inks@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: postinglinks@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 12:52:13 +0100 (BST)
Subject: My telephone number is +233241437933.


My telephone number is +233241437933.

My name is Joshua.I need you to help me and my sister now.we are the children of late Mr.Amos.Our late father was a very rich man before his death.Our father and mother is dead now.I am 21 years old and my sister is 19 years old.I arrived with my sister here, in Accra,republic of Ghana last week.We escape from freetown,republic of Sierra leone because our late father's brother wanted to poison us so as to inherit all my late father's wealth and estates.Even now,our late father's brother have forcefully collected all my father's properties like buildings,factory,cars,e.t.c.

Our late father's brother and his wife always punish me and my sister, and have made life very difficult for us. The wife served me a poisoned rice meal, but God saved me and my sister.we did not to eat the rice meal.I threw away the rice meal into the dust bin and on the following morning,i discovered and found the house cat dead in the dust bin after eating the poisoned rice.God saved my life from my wicked uncle.That was why i ran away with my sister from our home in Freetown immediately to Accra,republic of Ghana.We are now save in a hotel in Accra,Ghana.


Before the death of our father in a private hospital in Freetown,he secretly called me by his hospital bed side and told me that he deposited USD $20 million for Me and my sister.Me and my sister need you to help us keep the USD $20 million secure with business investment in your country.This is because me and my sister is too young to manage and keep this big cash by ourselves.we wish to continue our education in your country and you will help us invest the money in your country.Me and sister agreed to reward you with $2 Million out of the $20 Million if you will help us.

That our evil uncle havethe same evil character of that evil Foday Sankoh.You remember Foday Sankoh ? The late leader of the Sierra Leone rebel faction Revolutionary United Front. That wicked evil man Foday Sankoh is dead now.While awaiting trial in world court,He died from a stroke 7 years ago.That evil man Foday Sankoh is my Late father's cousin.Foday Sankoh mother is the sister to my grandfather(My late father's father) . Foday Sankoh mother is from the same Ethnic Loco family with my grandfather(ABBEY FAMILY).Foday Sankoh mother was married out from our family(ABBEY FAMILY) to Foday Sankoh father from ethnic Temne(SANKOH FAMILY).So our evil uncle have the same evil bad and wicked character of that evil Foday Sankoh.That is why he took all our late father's wealth like landed properties, cars, chemical factory except this $20 million dollars.He would have stolen our $20 million if they had known about the $20 million,but thank God me and my sister
kept the secret and neverallow our wicked uncle and his wife to know about our $20 million that is save here in Accra,Ghana.So ,please never let anybody to know about our $20 million.It is only me,my sister and yourself know the secret now about our $20 million dollars.  So ,please never let anybody to know about our $20 million.ok.


Me and my sister wish that you will be sincere and honest to us,because the $2 Million we have promise you is good enough to make you to be kind and love orphans like me and my sister.We wish that you will love and take care of us because we have no father and mother. My sister and myself wish to study our education in your country.A good medical university in your country. Because i will study medicine so that i will become a medical doctor.My sister will study nurse so as to become a professional nurse.We have good plans to build a very big hospital in your country after my sister and myself graduate from the medical
university.

Explain very well to me the kind of company business investment that is very good and profitable in your country.Is it oil business that is good ? Or is it stock exchange market that is good in your country ? or is it your own company business that is good ? Which business do your company invest ? Explain everything well for me now.ok

What is your telephone number ? Write down your telephone number so that i discuss with you.  My telephone number is +233241437933 .Call me on my number now so that i discuss with you. I will be waiting for your call now.

Yours Faithfully,
Joshua.
Telephone +233241437933





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