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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: OLAK OLAK <"www."@marble.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: OLAK OLAK <stevenpatrick2017@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 06:58:47 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Greetings,

Greetings,

My name is Miss Miss Marine Johnson,

First of all, i am very sorry for contacting you while we have not meet ever before but i urge you to have mercy on me because i am in a desperate condition right now and i need your help urgently. I am contacting you because i strongly believe that you will not betray me because you seems to be trusted. I am the only adopted child / daughter of late Mr Johnson, who was owing a gold mining company in Ghana. My late father late Mr Johnson, A gold merchant who lost his life during a business trip to china.

Before my father died, he told me that he deposited the sum of ($5.5 million Dollars including Gold Dust) in one of the banks in Accra Ghana, he told me that he wanted to use the money to investment in real estate business in another country and he was searching for a perfect investment partner before he died. He advise me never to fight to regain his company or our family house which is in Ghana otherwise the same people that killed him will also kill me because they killed him because of those properties. He further advised before he died that i should look for somebody from another country that can help me to invest the money in a lucrative business while i continue with my studies in the states or any other country i may deem more better for my stay. He gave me the deposit slip of the deposited money in the bank and also the agreement document which he had with the bank officials on the day he made the deposit in their bank for your confirmation.

I have decided to write you all about me and my position here and what I need you to do for me to get my fund and Gold Dust out for investment to enable me relocate in your area for living and investment.

Please if you can handle this project of transferring the Fund/Gold Dust kindly get back to me to enable me email you the full details. This is the only thing I can call my inheritance after the sudden death of my parent in the hand of china.

We can discuss on it.

MY DATA: MY NAME: MISS MARINE JOHNSON
MY BIRTH: 04/07/1985
MY OCCUPATION: MEDICAL SCIENTIST
MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE
NATIONALITY: GHANIAN
MY FATHER AGE BEFORE HIS DEATH:69
MY FATHER'S DATA: HIS NAME: MR.JOHNSON
OCCUPATION: EXPORTER OF GOLD AND HE DEPOSITED LARGE QUANTITY OF GOLD FOR ME IN THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION AND WE WILL DISCUSS ON THAT ONCE I HEAR FROM YOU ARE INTERESTED ABOUT THE GOLD.
I WANT YOU TO HELP ME TRANSFER THE MONEY INTO YOUR ACCOUNT FOR INVESTMENT AND THE AMOUNT DEPOSITED BY MY LATE FATHER IN THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IS VALUED 5.5 MILLION DOLLARS AND I NEED YOUR HELP FOR THE TRANSFER TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSE.

GOLD DESCRIPTION

PRODUCT - ALLUVIAL GOLD BAR
QUANTITY - 200 KILOGRAMS
QUALITY - 22. CARATS +
PURITY - 94.22%

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.

(1) Your Valid Direct Tel/ Mobile/Fax Number.
(2) Your Full Name:
(3) Current Resident Address.
(4) Your Private E-mail Address.
(5) Your Occupation:
(6) Your Age and Sex:
(7) Your Nationality

I am going to email you my complete details, the copy of the deposited document for your confirmation.

Yours Faithfully,
Miss Marine Johnson,

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