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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: juliet onodua <on-juliet@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <julieto_onodua06@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:05:05 +0000
Subject: FROM: MRS. JULIET ONODUA,



Mrs. Juliet OnoduaBlock a room 11UN refugee campAccra Ghana,West Africa.Dear, I
am very much delighted to write you this proposal I am Mrs. Juliet
Onodua, wife of late Mr. Kelvin onodua, former minister of mineral
resources during the Mr. Charles Taylor former president of Liberian
regime who is now facing world crime trail now.my husband as a
top governmental officer was assassinated by the model rebel group
early morning 7th Oct, 2004.And before his death My late husband
deposited two trunk boxes that contained fiscal cash of $25,000,000.00
and 50killos of gold. So after his death and they were threatening to
kill me and my two children, they way they killed my husband. So when i
found this documents which was given to my husband by the company to
identifies him as the depositor/owner , So decided to come down to this
country so that i can claim this boxes.But they security
company where this boxes was deposited refused to release the boxes to
me, Reason is that the boxes must be collected by my late husband or
his foreign partner and I don't know anybody as my late husband's
foreign partner.So please i am soliciting for your assistant to
help to stand as my late husband's foreign partner to make this claim
and i have all the documents needed for the claims.I just
arrived Accra Ghana since last two months with my daughter and son to
verify our inheritance from the Security Company here in Ghana. And I
have confirm that my husband has two boxes deposited with the Security
Company in Ghana here for Safekeeping until He retired and he has in
mind of investing this money Into a lucrative business for our future. I
have decided to give you 20% of total amount of the money in the boxes
and you will help me to sale the gold and you have 10% of the sales and
I have mapped out 5% to Cover any expenses en cured during the claims
if you are ready to help me. But now i am in the refugee camp because i
don't know anybody here.Expecting your immediate reply.Thanks and god bless,Mrs. Juliet Onodua(For the family)

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