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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: "Harmony Coffee" <harmonycoffee@live.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:14:21 -0700
Subject: MY GOOD FUTURE LIES IN YOUR HANDS.



Good Day Sir,

I believe this email will meet you in good condition of
health.my name is Harmony Coffee, I am 17 year old from
Sierra lone but presently l Am in Bujumbura Liberian refugee
camp in Ghana,west Africa.l write to inform you of my
desire.I am the first daughter of chief Dr George coffee.My
father was a diamond and gold merchant in my country.l got
your contact from a foreign charity aid worker that visited
the camp for charity donations but l did not disclose my
actual intentions for contact you.He told me l can build my
trust in you because of what you have really done in your
country.

My father had a bullet shot by the rebels on his way
traveling out of my country with one of my younger Brother's
due to the past crisis that has occurred in our country
(sierra lone) My brother's died on the spot while the UN
peacemaker, keeping force rescued my father, and he was
taken to hospital for medical treatment,
of which he later died. Before he died he revealed to me
that one of is boxes contained:(quantity 260kg,quality 22
carat plus.purity 93 percent of gold and the other box
contains $3.1million USD clean and spendable cash in a
metallic trunk boxes. Which he deposited with a security
company here in Spain for safekeeping, I need you to help me
stand before the security company as my late father's
foreign business partner because when my father was
depositing the boxes of golds in the security company, he
made the company to understand that the gold and the foreign
currency belong to his foreign partner outside the country.

This means that the bank will not release the boxes of gold
and money to me except we provide a foreign beneficiary to
stand for me for the claims and all the documents backing
the deposition of the funds to the bank are with me. This is
the reason i contacted you to help me in this regard. Attach
is my father hand in the security company when he was about
to deposit the gold box,and when he was signing all the
document that is backing the two boxes and my late father
burial photo.all the document that is backing the boxes are
with my father's attorney,in the person of Barrister Kenneth
Young ESQ Now permit me to ask these few questions:-

1. Can you honestly help me?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total amount in question will be
good for you.

Finally, I also want you to send me your full information
about your self and to make sure I am dealing with the right
person.I am expecting your reply. The reason why I am in
desperate need of your help is also not only do I want to
leave Africa and never return because of the tragic loss of
my family,I have been raped numerous times right there in
the camp, though this has stopped after the culprits were
jailed, but I am still haunted by the abuse, this is why I
desperately in need your help sir.

Yours Faithfully,
Harmony Coffee.

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