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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: DOGO JUSTICE <dogojustice202@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:35:58 +1100
Subject: FROM DOGO JUSTICE +233-260-849-789

*Dear Sir, I am called Dogo Justice, I am writing to inform you of my
inheritance of $25,000,000.00 us dollars presently in Standard Chartered
Bank Ghana LIMITED here in Africa, I have done everything which I know is
possible within my reach to ensure that I have the funds claimed, but all
my effort has been unsuccessful, although the funds was deposited by my
late father and his business partner who is an American by Nationality.
This funds was deposited with the purpose to extend my late father business
here in Africa as he and his partner then have a gold refinery here in
Ghana, and you know Ghana has a lot of gold companies both local mines and
others, and my late father was into gold as a gold merchandise, this is
where they made the money from, although on the process after they
deposited the money they have to invite the expatriate who is going to
build the refinery from Belgium, during this process my late father got
sick and die of illness, luckily enough for me I am the heir I mean the
next of kin. But the bank has refused to release the funds to me, as they
claim that I must provide my late father business partner, and after the
death of my father his business partner Mr. Matthew travel to America and
since then he has refused to return back to Ghana and I could not trace his
where about as he has know contact number, hence I am using this medium to
contact you for you to stand and assist me so that we can get the funds
claim and then we can invest the money into any lucrative business in your
country, and if you are ready to partnership with me then I will say we
should continue with the gold business that my late father use to do, after
the funds is claim from the Bank. Upon your respond with your interest I
will furnish you with the details of the bank so that you can contact them
for more update, you can also call me on this number +233-260-849-789
Thanks for your interest yours always Dogo Justice.*

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