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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: "Josephine K. Donatus" <josephinekwame12@outlook.com>
Reply-To: <josephinekwame2@rediffmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 20:06:25 +0000
Subject: Thank you and God bless you,



with due respect and regards greetings! For this letter is strictly personal, intimate and confidential. Forgive this unusual manner of contacting you, but this particular letter is of exceptional and very private nature.

There is absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust in your heart in respect of this email, coupled with the fact that, so many miscreants and impostors (scammers) have taken possession of the internet to facilitate their nefarious deeds, thereby making it extremely difficult for genuine and legitimate persons to get attention and recognition.

I pray that God will grant you the willingness and interest to digest this humble narrations and accept to assist me out and safe my life and future I am Josephine Kwame, I am 20 years old and the only surviving child of Late Lt.colonel Donatus Kwame who died on a motto fatal accident.last year October 2013 along side with my mother and my only junior sister Pauline.

I am forced to contact you because of the maltreatment I am receiving from my Uncles. They connived and took away my late father's assets and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Parents.Meanwhile I wanted to escape to anywhere i can have a good life but my uncle hid away my international passport and other valuable traveling documents.

Luckily for me whit the help of soldiers that intervene he did not discover where I kept my fathers File which contains important documents relating to the deposit of US$6m.500,000 (six Million Five Hundred Thousand US dollars) my late father deposited in a Finance Security Company in Ghana which I am the next of kin. So I decided to run to army barrack here in Accra Ghana where am been given an apartment because of my father's rank in army.

Please I need your assistance to clear this money from the security company and get this money transferred to you for my education, investment and to be my guardian before my uncles will get hold of me and the money.

PLEASE I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

1) TO SERVE AS THE GUARDIAN OF THIS FUND
2) TO CLEAR THE MONEY AND PROVIDE A BANK ACCOUNT WHERE THIS MONEY WOULD BE TRANSFERRED
3) TO MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR ME TO COME OVER AFTER THIS MONEY IS TRANSFERRED
4) TO LOOK FOR A GOOD VENTURE WHERE THIS MONEY WILL BE INVESTED, I'M WILLING TO OFFER YOU 20% OF THE TOTAL SUM AS COMPENSATION OF YOUR EFFORT
AND 5% FOR ANY OTHER EXPENSE YOU MADE AFTER A SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER.
contact me through my email (josephine.kwame@yahoo.com)


I am waiting for Ur urgent reply.

Thank you and God bless YOU
Josephine Kwame.



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