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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: James kwame <kwamej482@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 07:28:47 -0700
Subject: Re:Confidential Please.

Good morning.

I am sending you this email with the spirit of happiness and with
great amount of trust.
Am 31 years old, my name is Melvin Clark, from Liberia . I am the
eldest son of the late Captain Gordon Clark, the former Director of
Ministry of Mining and Solid Mineral, Congo Democratic . I am now in
Ghana as a refugee in the Ghana refugee camp. Please, I want to
confide on you to help me solve this problem, which I have. My late
father deposited a consignment with a security & finance company
before the war in my country, and when the fight was ablaze, my parent
was shot dead by the rebels and I and my sister escaped to exile by
the assistant of The United Nations peace keeping's soldiers and we
were brought to Ghana to seek asylum under Ghana Government.


One of my late father's friends, Mr. Yang Lee is suppose to receive
the consignment for him in Asia, all effort to contact Mr. Yang Lee
has proved abortive but I still remain the next of kin to empower a
new foreign partner to assist and work on behalf of me, it is on this
note that I am contacting you to please assist me to make claims of
the consignments from the security company and help us invest the
funds for the benefit of my future.


I have personally contacted the security Company and they have assured
me that the consignment is intact and his ready to deliver the
consignment to any of my late father partner or anybody I empower to
received the consignment in any part of Asia, America or Europe as it
was instructed by my late father before he die, now what I intend to
do now is to empower you for the claim of this consignment on behalf
of me in your country.
Please, this is confidential, and I have not told anybody before about
this, the $30 Million U.S Dollars which according to what I see from
my late fathers will, the money is two silver boxes. I count on you
and i trust you because am sure and i have the believed that you can
do it and be honest with me.

At the moment i did not have any financial power to handle this
transaction alone and that is why am getting you involve to help me
with one mind and solve this problem for me. I am sending this email
on public cafe, I cannot say everything here for confidential reason,
but please you can give me your telephone number and i will call you
immediately.

Thank you, with hope of your help.

Yours truly,
Mr. Melvin Clark.

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