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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: "BEN UMAR" <jp758031@gmail.com>
Reply-To: benumarbenumar@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 00:18:12 -0400 (AST)
Subject: I GUESS YOU GET MY EMAIL




Hello Sir
Is my pleasure for writing you this letter, hope you are fine? I want to use
this opportunity to introduce myself well to you, I am Ben Umar,The son of a
late
Chief Agyman Umar of D R CONGO, I came to know you in the course of my search
for a reliable and God fearing partner and I decide to contact you because
I believe you are a reputable person and i felt you can help us over this
confidential matter.I count on your integrity and honesty to be able to handle
this business. I
have a Trunk box that contain $5.9 million U.S Dollars which is already on
transit.

This consignment is right now on transit in your country , my Late father
business partner Mrs.Juliet Ottlete, who was suppose to receive this consignment
containing the
money was asking for 50% which I and my mother did not agree on for any
reason,that is why we have to stop the delivery to her immediately.We are ready
to give you
40% from the total money because that was the initial agreement we had with my
late father partner, Mrs.Juliet Ottlete before she later change her mind
because of
her greed which is the reason why we had to stop the delivery to her,so we need
you to stand as my family trustee to receive the consignment in our behalf
.please
If you are willing to help us receive this consignment, all you just have to do
is to contact the shipping company here in Ghana so that they can give you
instruction to
their agent holding the consignment on transit to deliver to you. Please reply
my mail so that I can give you the contact of the shipping company to discuss
with them
in delivery to you and all you just have to do for us is to receive this
consignment and you open different Bank account in Europe and lodge the money
in
,thereafter you can help help to come over in your country seek us asylum and
buy us a house so that we can live freely without molest ions. And that reminds
me
the shipping company does not know the content of the box, because it was
deposited as a family treasure.
Regards,
Ben Umar
For the family

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