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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: joy williams <joy520william@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 16:12:38 +0000
Subject: Greetings Dear 7/3/2023 ,

Greetings Dear 7/3/2023 ,

I know you will be surprised to receive this mail from me, as we do not
know each other before, but nevertheless my name I'm Miss Joy Williams a
Sierra Leone nationality, and my father worked with the Sierra Leone
Embassy here in Ghana for 9 years before he passed away. I got your
information during my search.

I am reaching you for your cooperation to secure an opportunity to invest
and to go into a joint business partnership with you in your country. I
have substantial capital, I intend to invest jointly with you into
lucrative business ventures based on your advice and directive in your
country. Your country's cost of living is significantly lower than that
of many other countries and ranked among the best including Asia,
China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada. Government support for
investors.

It is with these and many more reasons that I decided to seek for
a helper hence am contacting you. I would wish to go into either
estate property or hotel business of international standard (3 or 5
star hotels) or any manufacturing company of any kind, or any other
business you could advise me on the area of Hotel or Estate
property, if you could get a very good land that can serve for
this purpose, if the price is reasonable, we wouldn't mind going
for it or if there are hotels for sale, we would buy it and
put it to standard if the selling price is okay.

After the successful transfer of the fund, I will come to know your country
for us to meet to share the background, I am willing to part with 30% of
the fund for your assistance and 60% for me, while 10A% remaining will be
for expenses incurred during the transfer process. It is very important
that you call me on my mobile, once you accept this opportunity to confirm
your acceptance. Please keep the confidentiality of this mail.

I am waiting for your response as soon as possible.

Thanks for your co -operation my call and whatsapp number

Best Regards,

Mss Joy Williams

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