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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: Ramma kese<rammakesse@gmail.com>
Date: 10 May 2018 11:53:11 +0000
Subject: NEEDED URGENTLY PLEASE DO ACKNOWLEDGE

Hi,

Thanks for your kinda attention,

I am working with one of the Security company here in Ghana. I will like to discuss a very important issue with you which I know it will be favorable and beneficial for us. There is a vault which belong to one of our late customer for years now without none of the family that came up for it.

I have been working here in this company for years and at times I have a cordial relationship with some customers whom are foreigner and who came to deposit things in our security company for safe keeping. I was able to have a cordial relationship with a man who came to make deposition long time ago and later found out that he was dead but he has no next of kin neither any of his family knows about it moreover no one knows his family.

He was able to reveal to me that he is depositing a valuable material here in the company and told me that it was alluvial gold which is about 550kg and the second vault contains cash which in total sum of $25 million USD. He was able to reveal this to me because I was close to him and he likes me so much.

After his death the company need to seek for the family to come for the claim but to no avail, so I was able to make a research and I got your information.

What I need from you right now is that I want you to come up as the family of the decease person and we can claim this treasure together because if this treasure is still here till end of this (MAY) without no one coming to claim them then this means that the board of director will like to know what is inside it and when they open it then this means they have it as the company treasure.

This is what I am trying to avoid because the treasure will not be share among all of us but will only go to the board of directors only.

Kindly reply to my private email address.

I will be glad if you can be a partner in this and in my mind I already planned that we have a share of the whole stuff 50% - %50 this means equal.


I await your response.

Best regards,
Ramma kese

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