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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: Michel Ghezo <michelghezo@ymail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 15:48:56 +0100
Subject: =?windows-1256?Q?Compliment?= =?windows-1256?Q?=92s_of_the_?=
=?windows-1256?Q?day=FE=FE?=



Hello my friend,
I
am overwhelmed with joy to inform you about my success in getting the
fund transferred under the co-operation of a partner from Paraguay,
Presently,
I'm in (San-Pedro) Paraguay for investment projects with my own share
of the deal. I arrived here in Paraguay yesterday afternoon.

Anyway,
I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in the
realisation of this endeavour despite the fact that it failed us some
how because I understood you were afraid to go into the deal with me.
If
not that Friendship is a treasure, I will not offer you this gift.
Things become better when you expect the best instead of the worst. The
only reason people fail in life is broken focus. Also, things seem to be
impossible when you've not tried.

However, I still appreciate
your partnership so much. Now contact my friend in France, he's with the
motherless babies camp at Aubervillier in France. His name is Mr.
Richard Nwana and his email address is richardzxsf@gmail.com ask him to
send you the ATM card with amount of USD Dollars: 500,000.00 which I
kept for you as compensation for being part of this deal and also to
make sure you did not disclose this deal to anybody as you are the first
person I contacted for this deal and if the bank happens to know that
am the one that organised the deal, they may come after me here.

Secondly,
I will like to come and invest in your country One day, which I will
require your directions in the real estate investment which has been my
dream area of investment.

Please try and let me know immediately
you receive it so that we can share the joy together after all the
sufferings as at that time. Many of life's failure are people who do not
realise how close they were to success when they gave up.

As at the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects which me and my partner are having at hand.
Remember
that I had forwarded instruction to my friend on your behalf. So feel
free to get in touch with him and he will send the amount to you without
any delay.
with best regards,
Mr. Michel Ghezo

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