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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: "Clement V.Brown" <josephinekwame13@gmail.com>
Reply-To: clementv.brown@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 06:39:32 -0700
Subject: Please this letter is divine,

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 narration though it might be so surprising and strange because we
have not met or seen each other before.

Please help me, my name is .Clement V.Brown a 17 yrs old Orphan and a
Refugee, I am the only daughter of Chief Mrs. Jean Brown, from Zimbabwe, a
wealthy black farmer and senior politician with the opposition political
party in my country, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)

Our wicked late President Robert Mugabe murdered my mother and my father a
Garman;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
of late President Robert Mugabe. You will read more stories about former
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 husband my father Mr. Martin Brown, a white farmer from
Germany was murdered by the government. My mother fought her husband's
death through the Court and media and she was arrested, a few weeks after
her arrest my mother was reported dead. The government claimed she died of
a 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 $
34,000,000.00 (Thirty Four million 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
this is the reason I choose to come down to Ghana.

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 in 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 as a Refugee 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 or my life .

This is why I need your assistance to be my trust worthy foreign
beneficiary that will help me clear the money that has been kept on the
consignment box and have it sent 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 in it my private
email is (clementv.brown@yahoo.com)

Best wishes
Clement V. Brown.

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