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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: mike roland <mike98765400@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:53:07 +0000
Subject:

My Name is abdul mohammed from the Ashanti hene's extended family Ghana .I
know you will be surprised at the way in which I got your contact and you
may think am a Joker or something .I Got your contact via global search
and, the reason why I have contact you is because I want to confide in you
regarding a very confidential issues and to see if you can be of any useful
assistant.

I want to inform you of the Inheritance which is about 200 kilos of Gold
and some karat of diamond lock at a security company. I need your
assistance so I can move the 200kg worth of Gold, Diamond out of my country
to your country. I want you to be my beneficiary so that the ownership of
the Gold, Diamond will be transferred into your name.

we shall invest the funds from the sales of Gold & diamond into to any
profitable business in your country. i know a lot investor will like to
invest there for future purposes. I will also offer you 50% if you can
assist me, if you are interested to assist me. I shall invite you to my
country,to see the 200kg of gold, the diamonds in question. We shall then
proceed to make you the next of kin at the high court Ghana, the gold & the
diamond shall then be shipped to your country with you.

I want us to trust each other that why we need to meet face to face.if you
are willing to come down to assist me with the claim and export of the Gold
& Diamond to your country for resale and investing. This transaction is
100% risk free, as i am willing and ready to secure you a visa on arrival,
so that you can bode a flight to Ghana for conclusion and signing of all
the legal papers,this will not take us more-than 5 working days to achieve
after your arrival.
I shall wait to hear from you, my prevent email is: (
abdulmohammed901@yahoo.com)
Best Regards,
abdul mohammed

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