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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Heneritta hillips." <henerittaphillips206@outlook.com>
Reply-To: henerittaphillips2015@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 02:59:55 +0700
Subject: DO HELP ACCOMPLISH MY WILL.

How are you?

thank you for your response to the message  I sent to you, i am highly satisfied with it. How are you now? Mine, well i thank God for keeping me till this moment.

My name is Heneritta Phillips, 23 years old girl from Darfur Region of Sudan and right now i am residing in the Buduburam Refugee camp in Accra Ghana as result of the the killing of my family by the rebels last year, please do not be discourage for hearing this.

My late father Dr/Mrs Benji Phillips, was the Chairman, Gruv-Melton Oil and Gas Company a private extracting oil firm in Durfur. The brutal killing of my mother and my father, one kid sister and kid brother took place one early morning by the rebels as a result of the civil war that is going on until now in Sudan. It is only me that is alive now and I managed to make my way to the West African state called Ghana where i am living now in a orphanage home here in North, 10 km away from the capital city of Accra Ghana Like I told you that I am staying in a orphanage home, this orphanage home is headed by a Reverend, Reverend father Emmanuel Hillson whom i used his office computer to send you this e-mail and i only enter his office when he is less busy.This place is just like one staying in the prison and I hope by Gods grace, with your help i will come out of this place soon. I do not have any relatives, whom i could go to now. The only person That i have here on earth is; Reverend father Dr. John Attah, who is the Reverend Minister in charge of the church in this orphanage home,  The church, Reverend's e-mail address is (dr.johnattah@outlook.com ) and the Reverend's telephone No. +233236220914, You can call me  through his telephone number. tell him that you want to speak with me and he will send for me, In the orphanage home here I don't have any right or privilege to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this orphanage home. I want to go back to my studies because I only attended my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.

Meanwhile, I have my late father's Certificate of Deposit and death certificate here with me which I will send to you later, because when my father was alive he deposited some amount of money with one of the leading bank; which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is US$8.5M (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars Only). Though my father owned so many investments outside Africa which I do not know the companies or the bank where he kept his money but thank God that he deposited this money in my name otherwise I would have been left with nothing.

Please I will like you to send me some of your pictures and forward to me those information’s bellow:
1. YOUR REAL NAME:
2. YOUR REAL ADDRESS:
3. YOUR REAL AGE:
4. OCCUPATION:
5. NATIONALITY:
6. TELEPHONE NO.

So I will like you to help me transfer this money to your bank account and from it I can travel to meet you and live there. I kept this secret to people in the orphanage home here, the only person that knows about this money is the Reverend because he is like a father to me.

So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for I am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it. Remember I am giving you all these information due to the trust I deposed on you. I like honest, understanding and God fearing people,truthful and a person of vision,and hardworking.

I will give you full details of my late father's Deposit account information and the Bank contact information for you to contact them on my behalf as soon as i receive your response. Attached here is my photo for you,though I am not all that photogenic.

Have a nice day,
Miss Heneritta Phillips.

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