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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: Godwin Madelo <madelogodwin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 15:29:31 -0700
Subject: Re: I Need Your Help And Confidential.

Dear Sir/Madam.

I am sending you this email with the spirit of happiness and with great
amount of trust.
Am 31years old, my name is Godwin Madel, from Liberia . I am the eldest son
of the late Captain Gordon Madel, the former Director of Ministry of Mining
and Solid Mineral, Liberia . I am now in Ghana as a refugee in the Ghana
refugee camp. Please, I want to confide on you to help me solve this
problem, which I have. My late father deposited a consignment with a
security & finance company before the war in my country, and when the fight
was ablaze, my parent was shot dead by the rebels and I and my sister
escaped to exile by the assistant of The United Nations peace keeping
soldiers and we were brought to Ghana to seek asylum under Ghana Government.


One of my late father's friends, Mr. Yang Lee is suppose to receive the
consignment for him in Asia, all effort to contact Mr. Yang Lee has proved
abortive but I still remain the next of kin to empower a new foreign
partner to assist and work on behalf of me, it is on this note that I am
contacting you to please assist me to make claims of the consignments from
the security company and help us invest the funds for the benefit of my
future.


I have personally contacted the security Company and they have assured me
that the consignment is intact and his ready to deliver the consignment to
any of my late father partner or anybody I empower to received the
consignment in any part of Asia, America or Europe as it was instructed by
my late father before he die, now what I intend to do now is to empower you
for the claim of this consignment on behalf of me in your country.
Please, this is confidential, and I have not told anybody before about
this, the consignment contains 195Kg of Gold the purity of the Gold is 22+
carat, whilst the finesse is 94% or better and $30 Million U.S Dollars
which according to what I see from my late fathers will, the money is two
silver boxes. I count on you and i trust you because am sure and i have the
believed that you can do it and be honest with me,I will give you 15% for
helping me receive the consignment from the security Company.

At the moment i did not have any financial power to handle this transaction
alone and that is why am getting you involve to help me with one mind and
solve this problem for me. I am sending this email on public cafe, I cannot
say everything here for confidential reason, but please you can give me
your telephone number and i will call you immediately.
Thank you, with hope of your help.

Yours truly,
Godwin Madel.

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