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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: Ali Hamza <site@dovefarmbarns.co.uk>
Reply-To: rosemond90000@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:38:47 +0100
Subject: IMPORTANT BUSINESS MESSAGE

Hello My Beloved One,

Please bear with me i am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow from my hart.

My Names are Rosemond Akua Becker, 25 years old Girl Originated from Ghana, please i really want to have a good relationship with you, i know my mail might come to you as a surprise because you don’t know me, but due to unsolicited nature of my situation here in Ghana i decided to contact you for help, My late
father was a Gold miner here in Ghana and was poise to death by his business partner and my mother died of breast Cancer since 8 years ago and i am the only child from mother side.

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 without considering his children , but for God so kind one faithful morning as i was cleaning my late father’s room i opened my late father's briefcase and i found some important documents which my late father use to deposit a sum of three Million and five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($3.500,000) and 25kgs of Gold bars in a security company here in Ghana with my name.

Right now i have been to the security company to withdraw the money and the Gold bars so that i can start a better life and take care of my self, but the director of the security company whom i meet in person told me that the company reach an agreement with my late father that i must provide a foriegn partner before they can be able to release the inheritance to the foriegn partner on my behalf so in this case he advised me to seek for a reliable foriegn partner who will stand on my behalf as my trustee to claim the inheritance on my behalf.

Actually in search of an honest and reliable person who will help me withdraw this money and the Gold and invest it over to your Country i have chosen
to contact you after my prayers and i believe you will not try to cheat me but rather take me as your own people. Though you may wonder why i am so soon giving in to you without seeing you, well i can not help my self and i needed some one to help me and at the same time i will say that my instincts still tells me that you could be true to me, Briefly, I will like to disclose much to you if you will help me relocate to your country with the substance that i inherited from my late father which i will like to invest in your country into any lucrative business venture which you are to advise and execute seeing that i have no business experience for now.

However, I shall forward to you the necessary deposit information and the the security company information on confirming your acceptance to assist me for
the transfer and investment of the fund, and i will like to complete my studies which is the most important thing to me, as i was in my fist year in the university, when my father died and It is my intention to compensate you with 20% of the total money for your services and the balance shall be my capital investment, this is the reason why i decided to contact you, please all communications should be through this email address only for confidential purposes.

As soon as i receive your positive response showing your interest i will put things into action, in the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction, awaiting your urgent and positive response, Please do keep this only to yourself, i beg you not to disclose it till i come over because of enemies, i will send you my picture in my next email.

I hope to hear from you soon, May truth and love be the guiding word in my
refuge,

Regards,


Rosemond Akua Becker.

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