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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: frankemmea@yahoo.com
Reply-To: helku1975m@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:21:07 +0000
Subject: Attn: Dear Sir.

Hello Dear,

Good day and how are you doing today? I hope you are in good health condition, glory be to Almighty God who made it possible for us to meet. I know wondered and surprised reading this mail from me as we haven’t met before, but I want you to know that it takes only a moment and a day to know someone, and is my pleasure meeting you.

However, I’m Mrs. Helena Massa Kujabi a single parent of 3 and I’m a Gambian Citizen but present staying in Dakar Senegal, I am 31 years old. I’m writing you this mail with sorrows and tears in my eyes because of my present situation that my late husband people lead me into. My late husband Mr. Numo Kujabi was the Managing Director of the Gambia’s notorious and nefarious National Intelligence Agency and also a politician before his sudden death.

My late husband died in his office by a food poison detected by our private doctor but his colleagues in the office and the government official press said that it was a heart failure that leads to his death but all are lies they killed him. But that is not the issue, the main reason I’m contacting you now is because my late husband brothers chased me and my children away and took away all valuable things from us, even intended to take our lives and I escaped and ran to Senegal where I and my kids are hiding presently. Immediately after my late husband burial ceremony they started dragging properties with me and they took all away and left us with nothing and no cash to look after my kids.

But please there is something I want you to help me to secure in your position. I want you to help me to secure a secret deposit of my late husband 55 kilograms of raw gold and Four Million Seven Hundred Thousand American Dollars ($4,700.000.00) he made this secret deposit as a family treasure in a private security company here and nobody knows the content of the deposit even the company itself because he did not declare the contents of the deposit to anybody. I’m telling you now because I need your help and I want you to keep it to yourself and when we will be dealing with the deposited company to claim the deposit we wouldn’t let them to know the contents for security reasons.

So now I want you to assist me to claim and transfer the deposit to your country for the investment purpose and for a good establishment for my children better future. I need your help in all area because I have no idea of any business, I will equally need your assistance in probably sharing your knowledge and your professional advice, I will solely depend on your advice and any of your idea considered gainful is acceptable by me.

Please bear it in mind that we are into hiding because I don’t want my late husband brothers to know about us and the deposit, and all our communications should remain secret between us, so please indicate your interest to carryout this transaction with me secretly by replying this mail very urgently or you give me a call with this telephone number (+221764825308) to declare your interest and a portion of 15% of the total deposit will be offer to you for your help and assistance.

Thanks and God bless you as I wait for your positive respond.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Helena Massa Kujabi.

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