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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: Omeka Denise <odenseomeka@gmail.com>
Reply-To: odenseomekaa@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:49:56 +0200
Subject: THANKS FROM MR. DENISE OMEKA

Good day and how are you my good friend? Please forgive me for
stressing you with my predicaments this morning, as I know that this
letter may come to you as big surprise.

My name is MR. DENISE OMEKA, Actually, I came across your E-mail from
my personal search afterward I decided to email you directly believing
that you will be honest to me and to our feature mutual investment
relationship.

I have the sum of 30 million American dollars. Thirty Million American
Dollars, which I want to invest in U.S.A.

Please I want you to look for a very good lucrative business where we
can invest the fund. For your kind assistance I am ready to offer you
15% of the total fund once the fund gets to your account in U.S.A.

I want you to bear in mind that you will not spend any money in this
transaction till the fund get into your account, any expenses that may
come up, I will take care of it.

My advice and promise to you are that for you not to think otherwise
or having doubts in your mind, I will like you to open a new and
virgin bank account without money in it, for the transfer of my money,
so that when the transfer of my money is made, you will know and you
will not think that I am after your own money.

If at all you have a bank account already in one of these countries I
mentioned that you can provide for the transfer I will suggest that
you make the bank account empty, so that in no way you will think that
I am after your money that is in the bank account.

That is to say, you take all the money that is in the bank account
off from the bank account and put the money to another bank account,
so that what will be in the bank account you provided will be only my
money not yours.

Why I suggest this to you, is to prove to you that your money is not
my problems and I am not after your money, rather my 30 million
America dollars, that will be transferred to the bank account you
provided personally for the 30 million, that is my money and it is
enough for me.

Why I am telling you all this is for you to believe and trust me, that
in no way or in no circumstances I will ask you to help me to pay for
what so ever or send me your hard earned money, if at all there will
be expenses to make, that will be my problem and I will pay for the
expenses from my own money.

After that I will prepare to join you over there with my entire family
to live the rest of my life and to start an investment with the money,
of which you will be part of the investment.

You will help my family and I to have our residential permit, on the
investment you will have an important role to play as senior partner
to the investment.

The moment I finally relocate to live over there with you, you and I
will then talk about the investment and the sharing of the income.

Mind you the 15% of the total amount I promise to offer you will be
immediately after the transfer, it has got nothing to do with the
sharing of the income from the investment, the sharing of the income
from the investment is completely different and it has nothing to do
with the 15% as I promise.

MR. PAUL MODUBE

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