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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: "Mrs. Kwame" <Mrs.kwame1@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 06:15:44 +0000
Subject: *** Please this letter is strictly personal to you ***


With due respect and regards greetings! For this letter is strictly personal, intimate and confidential. Forgive this unusual manner of contacting you, but this particular letter is of exceptional and very private nature.

There is absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust in your heart in respect of this email, coupled with the fact that, so many miscreants and impostors (scammers) have taken possession of the internet to facilitate their
nefarious deeds, thereby making it extremely difficult for genuine and legitimate business class persons to get attention and recognition.

I pray that God will grant you the willingness and interest to digest this humble narrations though it might be so surprise and strange to believe my story but i knew by the reason of the almighty you will humbly understood and accept to proceed with my proposal though we have not met or seen each other before.

Please help me, my name is .Josephine 20 yrs old, I am the only daughter of Chief Mrs. Kate. Victor from Zimbabwe, a wealthy black farmer and senior politician with the opposition political party in my country, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)

Our wicked President Robert Mugabe murdered my mother and my father;I have to travel from my country, because I have become his next target to eliminate. My mother was a fighter for Justice and a moving force in The MDC, a party wanting to end the several years of brutal dictatorship government of President Robert Mugabe. You will read more stories about President Mugabe's brutal acts by visiting this web site:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2000/0418/zimbabwe.html

My mother was accused of assisting the white farmers in fighting the government, her partner Mr. Martin Olds a white farmer from British was murdered by the government. My mother fought his partner's death through the Court and media and she was arrested, few weeks after her arrest, my mother was reported dead. The government claimed she died of heart attack.

But before they came looking for me, I left the country to Liberia to save my life, before my arrival here in Ghana. Here are my reasons for contacting you. Before the death of my mother, she deposited the sum of $ 11.5m,000,000.00 (eleven million 500 hundred thousand,United States Dollars) with a security company during when she went to Ghana to purchase her farm machinery equipment, as if she foresaw the looming danger in Zimbabwe, this money was earmarked for the purchase of new machinery and chemicals for the farms.

I have all the documents covering the funds with me here in Ghana i have also gone to confirm all information from the security company you are the only person am telling this because this is the only thing i have my future all that my late parents had work for is sized in my country and i can not go back there again for now right now am staying in a church Bible living faith church the pastor of the church is the one feeding me and do not know about this because am afraid because here is not my country i don't want anything to happen to my money.

This is why I need your assistance to be my trust worthy foreign beneficiary that will help me clear the money that is been kept on consignment box and have it send to your country, so that you can arrange on how to bring me over to your country. I am willing to offer you 25% of the eleven million five hundred thousand,United States Dollars) for your assistance and the other 75% you will help me to invest it.


Please, let me know if you can assist me, with your name, mobile contact and address, so that I can give you more details on how we shall proceed. I await your urgent response on my (josephine.kwame@yahoo.com)


Thanks
Miss Josephine


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