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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: Gemila Jimmy <jgemila54@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:38:55 +0100
Subject: Waiting for your response


I am Gemila Jimmy, 22 years old Medical student in University of
Sudan . I am the only child of my father of a blessed memory by name
Late Mr. Jimmy Lemi Milla was the rural development minister in Sudan.
You can read more about my father death in the BBC news
website:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12403620

I am
constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment am receiving from
my step mother whom in partnership with my father only brother has
taken away all my fathers treasury and assets since the unexpected death
of my Father and also refused me access to everything and hid my
international passport and other valuable traveling documents, luckily
to me she couldn't discover about a deposit of US$4.7m my late father
made with a bank when I traveled with him to Accra on my 18 years which
my name was used as next of kin and signed which is the reason why I
followed my father to Ghana.

Due to the maltreatment am receiving
since the death of my father I managed to escape to Accra Ghana through
road, and am now seeking hiding in a private charity organization under
St Johns Catholic Church here in Accra. I am in search of an honest and
reliable person who will help to relocate me in any of the western or
any other place in the world, for a better life and to continue my
studies, I have chosen to contact you after getting your email through a
database, and I believe you are a reliable person who will not let me
down or betray my trust, I know you may wonder why I am telling you
about all this, even without seeing or knowing you fully well, really
something in me tells me that you are a good person and I guess I am not
wrong as I have no choice.

Briefly, I will like to disclose
little more about myself to you and see if you can help me to relocate
to your country so as to continue with my studies and have a new life,
and please this is a little secret and I plead with you to keep it to
yourself alone until everything is properly arranged and executed, then I
will come over to join you in your country. I have the sum of
US$4.7Million as an inheritance from my late father which I will like to
invest in your country with your help and am ready to give you 25% of
the money as thanking gift for your assistance after you have helped me
to receive the money and relocate to your country. I want you to
understand that I will not be able to make this claim because of my
refugee status. This fund is deposited in my late father's bank account
with one of the banks here in Accra and I will personal visit the bank
to sign and instruct them to transfer the money to your account before I
come over to join you in your country, I need your urgent answer of
your ability to handle this for me so that I will visit the bank to
submit your account and instruct them to transfer the money to you
immediately because I want to leave this refugee camp as soon as
possible, life here is to me a hell, no love, no affection and no
amenities, more importantly, I love my studies and here nothing is
happening and people here are not friendly,I am really suffering in this
place, it is too painful, but I hope with your help to transferring the
fund in your account, I will have a better life to live so kindly let
me know your readiness to help me and I promise to always be nice and
faithful I am waiting for your urgent response.

Yours Sincerely,
Gemila Jimmy

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