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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: Arogo John P <arogojpaul@yandex.com>
Reply-To: arogojohn10@sapo.pt
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:57:12 +0100
Subject: I'M REALLY ASKING FOR YOUR HELP PLEASE


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Good Morning My Dearest,
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Dear, I am writing this mail to you with profound respect and humble
submission, I beg to state the following few lines for your kind
consideration. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of my present
situation here in the refugee camp for your rescue and also for a business
venture/project which I I need your assistant in this business
establishment in your country as my foreign partner as well as my legal
appointed trustee , i know this mail might come to you as a surprise
because you don=E2=80=99t know me, but due to unsolicited nature of my situ=
ation
here i decided to contact you for help and investment assistant in your
country as my foreign partner, please bear with me. I must confess that it
is with great hope, joy and enthusiasm to write you this mail and I believe
by the faith that it must surely find you in good condition of health. My
name is Arogo John Paul Oulu 25 years old female from the Republic of
Kenya, the daughter of Late Mr. John Paul Oulu. My late father was a Kenyan
lawyer and human rights activist who was the Chief Executive Officer and
Communications and Advocacy Officer of the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid
Clinic Kenya (OFFLACK). My Father was brutally shot dead on Thursday 5Th
March 2009 after a government spokesman accused their group of aiding a
criminal gang. What led to the cold blood killing is still unclear but I
know that my father life was the target. You can read more about my father
in the BBC link=C2=A0http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/h=C2=A0i/africa/7927873.stm
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After the death of my beloved father my wicked step mother along with my
uncles team together and sold everything that my late father had and share
the money within themselves, I lost my mother long time ago, and since
then, my father loved me so dearly at my tender age may he rest in =C2=A0pe=
ace
and may the great God give him a safe entry in Paradise Amen. Before the
death of my father, he told me that he made a fixed deposit of the sum of
Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($10.500.000.0 0) in
one of the Banks here in Burkina Faso, with my name as his next of kin,
which I confirmed his statement positively from the bank. But on my arrival
to the Bank to withdraw the fund, the Bank foreign Operation Department
Director whom I meet in person told me that my father instruction to their
bank is that the fund would only be release to me when I am married or
present a trustee/partne r who will help me and invest the fund overseas
after the transfer, and the bank ask me to go and look for a foreign
partner.
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=C2=A0Therefore my dear, I am soliciting your help for transferring of my
inheritance fund into your bank account and investment assistance in your
Country as my legal appointed trustee as the bank mentioned and it will be
my intention to compensate you with 40% of the total fund for your services
and help then the balance shall be my capital in your establishment which
you are going to establish there in your COMPANY or in good business
venture that will give us good profit there in position as my trustee and
manger. I have suffered lots of set back as a result of my parents death. I
left Kenya, because of incessant family funds. Presently, I am currently
residing in Christ De King Refugee camp here in Ouagadougou Capital city of
Burkina Faso. Hence, I want to settle in your country to further my
education and spend the rest of my life. Please consider my request as my
life is being hugely affected.
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Thanking you a lot in anticipation of your quick response. I will give you
details in my next mail after receiving your acceptance mail to help me.=C2=
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Yours Sincerely Arogo John Paul

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