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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: "Miss.Hairil Kalokokh" <misshairil1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Miss.Hairil Kalokokh" <misshairil@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:26:35 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Urgent From Miss.Hairil


Hello Dear,

Sorry for sending you this mail about my life history. My name is Miss.Hairil Kalokokh,a daughter to late Chief and Mrs.Foday Kalokoh from Sierra Leone, one of the potential Elite and also gold and diamond merchant in my community and he died while in exile after much intimidation and attacked by the ruling party.

My main aim of contacting is to seek your support and assistance in guiding his deposited belongings in one of the Sub-African region called Ghana.I happened to know about his deposited belongings after a letter arrived to the family through his backing lawyer in Ghana who has copies of the deposited commodities and some cash, diamond and gold in content of the treasure which he willed on my name as only daughter to my late mother who is also his last wife.Since after the letter was received by  relative of my late father and in its content indicates that 158KGS of gold bars and cash of US$9.8 million (Nine million Eight hundred dollars) are in total deposited in a security firm by my deceased father and willed me as next of kin.

Am 20 years of age, I overcomes many attempt of assassination and other treats in hands of that relative before I decided to leave my country and fled to Ghana where am currently residing seeking means of moving the communities to oversea were I will have my final settlement and further my education while the funds will be invested in any good profitable business of your choice till I complete my education I shall forward to you with the necessary documents on confirmation of your acceptance to assist me.Though there will be 20% percent offer for you in each of the item in the consignment including the cash, but my only problem is that I don’t know anything about gold except the cash only.

Yours Sincerely.
Miss.Hairil Kalokokh.

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