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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: Eric Momoh <mrericmomoh122@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 13:47:27 +0100
Subject: Good Day Sir/Madam,

Good Day: Sir/Madam,

I am sending you this email with spirit of love and with great amount
of trust. I am 25years old, my name is Mr Eric Momoh, from Sierra
Leone.

I am one of the surviving son of the late Joseph Saidu Momoh, the
former President of Sierra Leone, I am now in Accra the Capital City
of of Ghana as a refugee in the United Nations refugee camp, I and my
sister left our country because of the way our late father was
overthrown in a military coup staged by Valentine Strasser, a
25-year-old army captain in April 1992. which made our late father to
spent the last years of his life as a guest of the military government
in neighboring country Guinea, where he died in exile in 2003.

Please, I want to confide on you to help me solve this problem, which
is worrying us now. I got your contact from a Ghanian web business
directory on investment.Meanwhile, my late father deposited some
consignment boxes with a security & finance company here in Accra
Ghana, because of the coup, this made me and my younger sister to
escaped for exile by the assistant of The United Nations peace keeping
soldiers and we were brought to Ghana as a refugee to seek asylum
under Ghanian Government.

Please, this is confidential, and I have not told anybody about this
before, the consignment boxes contains the total sum of ($48,7m)
Fourty Eight Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
Only, with some other items such as; 57kg Au gold dust, and 7
Diamonds50 Carats of purple. I believe i can count on you and i trust
you because am sure and i have the believe that you can do it and be
honest with us.

As soon as you accept to receive the consignment boxes on my behalf
and save-guard it well till i and my younger sister come down to your
country to meet with you in order to conclude with our studies, i will
immediately give you the contact information of the security & finance
company in Accra Ghana for you to contact them and conclude on how to
receive my family wealth, I assure you once-more, if you accept to
receive the consignment boxes for me, i will forward to you every
needed documents that covers you, as the right beneficiary to receive
the consignment boxes from the security & finance company in Accra
Ghana.

Have a nice time and God bless.

Anticipating your communication soonest as you receive this mail, my
email is; ( mreric_momoh1@yahoo.fr )

Yours Truly
Mr Eric Momoh,

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