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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: Enoch Aboagye <aenoch611@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 21:39:17 +0000
Subject: Get back to me.

Enoch L Aboagye Law Firm,
69 Nkruma avenue, Accra Ghana
Securities Corporate Finance & Business Law
Domestic and International Business Practice.

Attention friend,

How are you doing today? Hope you are doing great, Thank you.

My Name is Barrister, Enoch L Aboagye, I am originally from Central Region
Ghana West Africa with Enoch L Aboagye Firm and Real Estate solicitors in
Accra Ghana, We have a deceased client, a foreigner member of Gulf States and
member of Indonesia Government Oil & Gas Finance, who died and left a Sum
Amount of (US$27,000,000,00)Twenty-Seven, Million United State Dollars in
a deposit company here under our Law Firm.

Since his death I have received several letters from the deposit company
where he deposited the fund before his death, to provide his next of kin or
any of his relatives who can make claim to the funds before the end of the
Month or they will be left with no option than to confiscate the fund and
return it as it has been marked unclaimed. Since I could not locate any of
his family members I want you to stand as the next of kin to our client
since all the documentation is available with us.

Contact me if you are interested this is a deal between me and you, again
we have only two weeks to move this fund out and you and my firm will share
the fund 50/50% once it is in your custody.

Thanks Best Regards,
Barr. Enoch L Aboagye

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