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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: "David Edgard" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mariamedgard@gmx.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:27:24 -0800
Subject: Your urgent reply is needed

From:

Buduburam Refugee Camp Easter Region Accra-Ghana.

I am David Edgard and my younger sister is Mariam Edgard, We are both Sudanese who migrated down here in Ghana to seek an asylum as a UN refugee. Due to the fact that our parent was murder by a group of rebels in our home land country just because of jealousy and their bad ambition towards our family's fortunes, And this same rebels were after our life as well. This is the reason why i and my sister migrated down here to Ghana to seek an asylum as a UN refugee for security and safety of our life since Ghana is a peaceful country in Africa. Our late parent have work in a gold mining company for more than three decades and deals on exporter and importing of cars as well in abroad. And this is how he became very wealthy from this business of his. Our consignment to you contain the sum of $40 Million United State Dollars which is currently in Libreville,Gabon. The consignment got to Gabon through the help of a UN diplomat called Dr.Terry Kwesi. He was suppose to deliver the tr
unk boxes to our adopted God moth

But on the day the UN diplomat Dr.Terry Kwesi arrive in Gabon, He called the telephone of our adopted God mother Miss Leslie Victoire for delivering of our trunk boxes to her. But her telephone was disconnected and it is unreachable. Dr.Terry Kwesi waited in the airport for more than 4hours with no respond form our adopted God mother. And he decided to rent a bullion van to take the trunk boxes directly to the address of our adopted God mother. But when he arrive to her resident, He receive a tragic story from the house maid of our adopted God mother stating that, Our God Mother Miss Leslie Victoire have a heart failure that leads to her dead. With this report, Diplomat Dr.Terry Kwesi had to deposit the trunk boxes in a safe and security storage warehouse over there in Gabon and informed us about it. But since the dead of our adopted God mother Miss Leslie Victoire, We have been suffering here in the refugee camp and we find it difficult to have two square meal in a day
and with no good shelter or bath

We are suffering so bad here in this country and we want to relocate to your country, so that you can help us with a good investment and further our educational career and buy a good house where we can all live together in it as one big happy family again. on acceptance of becoming our new foster parent, We will connect you and the UN diplomat Dr.Terry Kwesi together in direct contact, so that our trunk boxes could be deliver to you. and you can able to process our travel documents to come over to your country. We will be very much pleased and honor if you could contact us directly on our email address. I wait in anticipation of your reply and co-operation. And please you should reply directly to our private email stated below for a safe and secure communication.

E mails me: mariamedgard@gmail.com and mariamedgard@gmx.com

Thanks and God bless you

Prince David Edgard and Princess Mariam Edgard

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