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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: Kossi Edoh Afidegno <tagbegnelenta@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 21:29:20 +0000
Subject: Attention Dear Friend,

Attention Dear Friend,

My name is Tagbegne lenta kossi From the Republic of Togo. I am the
personal driver and confidant of Mr. Harris, a citizen of your country. For
security reasons I keep for the moment the full identity of my boss, he is
a rich businessman, who exploited gold in Ghana, and he lived in Lome and
Accra.

For reasons that he considers personal, he did not get married, he has no
wives or children or close family, his only brother whom he had spoken to
me about was a soldier but who died during a mission. In 2020 we had
thought of adopting a child who could one day inherit his property, but we
were surprised by the events.

IN June 2020 on his return from his business trip from Macau( China's
southern coast), my boss fell ill, he was suffering from a fever, without
wasting time I took him to the hospital, after several days of treatment,
his state of health continues to worsen, after the various exams, the
doctors let me know that my boss has contracted covid-19, I was the only
one by his side since my boss has no close family, he was put in
quarantine, and a week later my boss died.

I gave my statement to the police, given the various response measures that
the government has taken to deal with covid-19, contact with the body is
strictly prohibited, and quickly the agents of the health service were
deployed to take care of the body for burial.

During my statement to the police, I declared that my boss has family, I
made this declaration to prevent my boss's fortune from being frozen and
going to the public treasury of the republic of Togo, because if the
government recovers these fortune I would gain nothing,

I am contacting you in this matter based on the fact that you have the same
last name as my late boss, I need your assistance in repatriating the fund
,I am contacting you to be my partner and work together with me to have
this fund transferred out of this country, so I want you to present
yourself to the notary as the legal beneficiary of the unclaimed fund since
there is no next of kin, now we have to come to an arrangement, if I help
you recover these money what will be my share?

My boss's fortune is stored in two bank accounts, these accounts were used
to transact with his customer, the first account contains an amount of
(five million one hundred thousand us dollars) $5,100, 000.00.US
<http://000.00.us/> dollar, and the second account contains an amount of
$.320. 000.00. US <http://000.00.us/> dollar (three hundred twenty
thousand us dollars)

Revert back to me as soon as possible for more details.

Best regards

Kossi Edoh Afidegno

Tagbegne lenta

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