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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: Afetsi Kofi Awoonor-Williams <nic32845@gmail.com>
Reply-To: kofi12@gmx.us
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 03:13:24 -0300
Subject: Please your immediate response is needed


Hello dear Sir/madam



Please exercise a little patience and read through our
mail. Also, kindly allow me to introduce ourselves to you, our names are
Afetsi Kofi Awoonor-Williams. I'm a 26 years old male from Ghana, West
Africa, and my kids sister Miss. Cindy Kofi Awoonor-Williams 24 years old,
Cindy is my only sister and the only daughter of our late parents. Our
beloved mother died in July 2005. I and my only sister are the only living
children of our Late Father Prof. Kofi Awoonor-Williams. Our Late Father is
well known as Ghanaian poet and one of the African distinguished literary
figures, he served as Ghana’s ambassador to Brazil and Cuba in the 1980s,
as well as United Nations envoy during the 1990-94 presidency of Jerry
Rawlings. I and my Father were among the scores of people killing by Al
Qaeda-aligned terrorists, who attacked a busy shopping mall in Nairobi,
Kenya on September, 21, 2013. When members of Al Shabab, a Somali-based
militia, seized the Westgate Shopping Mall in a hail of bullets in Kenya's
worst terrorist attack, my father died but i was badly injured but i made
it to life by the grace of God. As you can read more about the incident
with some pictures and a video after the attack in Westgate Shopping Mall
with the link below also you can Google out and to see everything unfold
before you respond to my message:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2432943/Kenya-Westgate-mall-attack-video-shows-gaping-chasm-3-storeys-collapsed-siege.html

Footage shows full extent of destruction to Westgate mall

The collapse came on Monday, shortly after four large explosions rang out
followed by billows of black smoke at the Westgate shopping centre in
Nairobi Kenya: www.dailymail.co.uk

We are constrained to contact you because of what we have been passing
through the maltreatment which we have been receiving from our wicked
uncles who have planned to take away all our late father's treasury and
properties from us since the unexpected death of our beloved parents
because they feel and believed that no one is there to speak on our behalf
or to fight for our right but they forgot that God is always there to speak
for the fatherless and homeless children, we were very lucky that our
uncles did not discover where my sister Cindy kept our father's File which
contained the most important documents of all our father owns while i was
badly injured and know nothing that happened but God used Cindy to act on
my behalf. Presently we are staying in (Damba refugee camp Ouagadougou
sector 19 off mali road Burkina Faso) that’s the camp address we drop out
from school because of the kind maltreatment we are receiving for our
wicked uncle, Now seeking for your long term relationship and business
investment assistance from you to get our inheritance fund transferred so
that we can go back to our studies. My father of blessed memory deposited
the total sum of $7.3 Million USD with the United Bank for Africa here in
Burkina Faso in my name as the next of kin so i have to carry my sister
along with me. Now I had contacted the Bank to clear the deposit but the
Regional Bank Manager told us that our beloved father placed an instruction
on the fund that we must present a foreign trustee who will help me in
investment of the fund. However, he advised us to provide a legal trustee
and an investor who will stand on my behalf for the transfer clearance. I
wanted to inform my uncle about the deposit but I am afraid he will offer
us nothing after the release of the fund because he’s threatening to kill
me after selling some of our Father's properties.

Please we are seeking your helping hand in transferring our inheritance
fund into a savings account while we will relocate to your country to
settle down with you as our new parents or whatever you may wish to take
us. As you indicate your interest to help us I will give you the account
information and the bank branch contact where our late beloved father
deposited the fund with my name as the next of kin. However It is our
intention to offer you 30% out of the total fund transferred to compensate
for your assistance after the transfer and the balance shall be our
investment in any profitable venture which you will recommend to us as we
have no idea about any business/foreign investment.

Meanwhile i will like us to have a live video chat, so therefore i will
be happy if you can make out time for us to have a live video chat on
(Skype) before we move on, the video call will help us a lot and for more
understanding, so if you agree with me on the video chat let me know to
enable me to give you our number on ( Skype) Hopefully to hear from in no
distance time thanks and may God bless.

SkypeID: Williams Kofi

Yours Sincerely

Mr. Afetsi Kofi Awoonor-Williams

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