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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: Amanda Adissa <doronmansaray@gmail.com>
Reply-To: amanda12345k@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 00:21:09 -0700
Subject: Good-Day to you


Hello Dear,
I am Mrs.Johnson Ama Adissa from Ghana I am married to Chief, Dr. Johnson
Adissa Kofi who deals in Gold business, later became the Director of the
Cooperation for twenty five years before he died mysteriously early last
year. We were married for twenty years God gave us a daughter, who is 19
years old now and because of my husband love for me he refused to marry
another wife for more children according to our African tradition, my late
husband died after a brief illness from food poison which lasted for only
four days.

Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get another child outside my
matrimonial home, my husband’s relatives was responsible for his death
because they want to inherit the entire legacy since they know I have no
male child, before the death of my husband he left the sum of
US$11.5Million with a bank in Ghana. I am actually suffering from cancer
decease which my Doctor has confirmed that l wouldn't survive and my
daughter is still a little girl. Having known my condition and I don't want
to lose my only daughter, I decided to seek for your help to transfer this
fund and my daughter out of this country to your care since my Doctor told
me that I have a little time left due to my cancer decease.

I took this decision because I don't want to lose everything my husband has
worked for, and my husband relatives are not good at all, they are
responsible for the death of my husband in order to inherit all his
properties and I don't want my husband's efforts to be used by those that
conspired for his death because they may return back to kill my daughter if
they have the opportunity, therefore,if you are willing to help me, do
kindly reply me and after that I will give you all the details including
your percentage for your assistance. keep this proposal as a top secret or
delete it if you are not interested at all.

I look forward to hear from you.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Johnson Ama Adissa

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