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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: "Major General Miller Jeffery" <Jeffery-Miller@scottsng.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:51:27 +0100
Subject: WE NEED YOUR URGENT ATTENTION PLEASE



Hello sir/madam,
my name is Tony Ture and my sister's name is Neso Ture. we hope that we are not embarrassing you with this mail, because you did not expect it or know us before but kindly forgive us, because we are in danger right now. I am 18years and my younger sister Neso is 16 years old, we are from Cote d'lvoire and the only children of late Mr and Mrs John Ture. our late father is among the presidential Cabinet here in cote d'lvoire,in fact he is very close to the formal president Mr Lauren Gbagbo in such a way that he is the only person that is carrying out Mr Gbagbo's foreign transactions. Meanwhile,because of the intensive crisis that is going on in the country. He brought me and my younger sister neso to Ghana, on his way going out to russia for a business trip, which Mr Gbagbo sent him, promising us that he will come and pick us when he comes back from the trip.

The reason we are contacting you is that our father never comes back again. we had a presidential crises in cote d'lvoire, after the election 2010 presidential election in the country. Because  our late father was a close associate and a Cabinet member of (Lauren Gbagbo), the people of the opposition part stormed into our house, burnt down our house and short our parents to death instantly.

Meanwhile, after about two weeks that our father brought us to Ghana, one of his barrister came to the hotel, where our father kept us and informed us that our parent has been murdered by the opposition part of Mr Lauren Gbagbo. He later brought out some document that belong to our father, which contains about $14.2m, that my father deposited in a security company here in Ghana with our names, accoring to the Barrister, he instructed him that he should
look for a foreign beneficiary that can hlpe us invest the money, after which our beneficiary can take 30% of the money, while we further our education in his country under his care.
 
The problem we are facing now is that after we successfully collcted the money from the security company with the help of our father's lawyer, he made away with $2m from the money and left us stranded here with the remaining money and went back to our country for the past two months now.

Please, i want you to step forward as our foreign beneficiary, so that you can help us transfer our fund to your country, so that i and my younger sister will come over there and continue our education and use the rest of the money for any investment prefared by you in your country.

Please, we are waiting to hear from you.you can contact us with this email:tony_ture@yahoo.com.

Yours children,

Tony and Neso Ture.

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