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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: DIVINE AGHE <divine.aghe@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: aghe.divine@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 12:23:29 +1300
Subject: YOUR TRUST AND ASSISTANCE PLEASE

Hello Sir my name is Divine Aghe and i am 16 years old boy who is from a family of just one because i am the only child of my parents , but its so unfortunate that presently now, its just me no father and mother,and i am currently in the refugee camp,seeking for some one to stand as a foreign beneficiary to help receive my inheritance from my late father who was a top sales merchant in gold and diamond sales in the early 2007,he was killed along side my mother by rebels who invade into Syria about two months ago, my both parents was killed at the time of the war in the war. After a week after the death of my parents, i went to my fathers old chop where he use to have his store in sales of Gold which was broken down by the rebels,who invaded Syria while i was scavenging, i saw his secrete safe,and in it i found document and a letter telling me that he had deposited parts of his products,and money in a security company. the boxes are Two(2) containing his product and funds. 0ne box contains$23.5m United States Dollars,and the other box contain Gold bar , both are in the security company , am in the refugee camp were we hardly eat or have water to bath,but when i went to the security company they told me that my late father stated that before the boxes will be released to me i have to get a foreign beneficiary to help me make contact with them to enable them release my treasures to me through you . i am sending you this message to please assist me in making contact with the security company so that they can be able to release my treasures to you because that is what they have requested i provide before they can release my late father treasure to be deliver you and after the delivery of my boxes to you , you can send me some money from it so that i can make arrangement for my coming to you and you can be able to send me back to school and also use the other part of the funds very wisely and take care of me , so that when i grow more mature , you can teach me how to do good business and invest wisely but now you must control the funds after the security company delivers to you because you know am a very young boy who have no business idea and this is the more reason i choose you as my dad and i will respect you all the days of my life dad. Dad one other request i will like you to grand for me is that after the security company has successfully deliver my late father tre! asures to you, i want you to set up a small scale gold supplier company in memory of my late father who was a merchant in the supplies of gold. Dad the most important letter my late father wrote was that he deposited the boxes as family valuables to the security company and that the security company does not know that those boxes contain gold and funds,and this is another month adding and i was told that if the boxes stays much longer in the security company they will be confiscated by the government. Dad Since they do not know the content of the boxes, if the boxes are confiscated i will lose my inheritance, for a long time now i have been searching for foreign beneficiary to help me,i will be most happy and glad to be part of your humble family. If you are willing to assist me get my treasures out from the security company , i will be sending you the contact details to the security company so that you can make contact with them and let them know you are my foreign beneficiary who is to receive my boxes with them, and any other question you will like to ask me if you don't understand much about this. I await your reply With love Divine Aghe +233546753976

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