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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: linda mehi <linda1mehi7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <Linddymehi2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:49:58 +0000
Subject: Dearest one



Dearest One,
How are you today?
My name is Linda Mehi of 20 years old single girl the daughter of late Mr/Mrs John Mehi, he was international business man, he deal on timber business when he was alive.
Though we don't know each other before, but i believe that relationship and communication with someone you never know before start a day.
There is this amount of one million five hundred thousand US dollar($1.5M) which my late father deposited in one of the Security Company here in Ghana not yet in the bank before him, my mother and my only sister died on motor accident here in Accra-Ghana West Africa.
With the trust i have in God i decided to contact you to HELP me retrieve this money from the Security Company so we can invest it in any profitable investment's in your country because my late father reached agreement with the company to release the fund to me on my 30th birthday which is not even near.
If you can be of a great HELP to me i will be please to offer you 25% of the total money after the money has been transferred to you in your country and you will arrange for my coming to meet you in your country to further my education.
PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP ,Help me the way you can help your daughter, your sister when she need your help.

Waiting to hear from you at so that i will give you more details and information. I was instruct by my fathers lawyer to seek for a foreign help because my father's younger brother was among the 9/11 dead victims, so the company will release the fund to me if he should appear of which the company don't know about his death.
Thanks and God bless you.
Miss
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