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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: Kwame Nana <kwame-----nana@att.net>
Reply-To: kwameintlcommercialbank@accountant.com
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 18:43:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PRIVATE LETTER FROM DR . KWAME NANA



FROM THE BRANCH MANAGER

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK

KUMASI BRANCH GHANA.



Hello Dear,



My Name Is Dr Kwame Nana, I am the branch manager of the International Commercial Bank Kumasi branch Ghana. I am contacting you because I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($6.750.000.00) million United States Dollars to your bank account within ten (10) banking days.



Upon the receipt of your reply,I will give you the full details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will have 45% of the above mentioned sum as your own share while 50% will be for me, and the other 5% will be for the expenses occur in this transaction.This is my private email contact (kwameintlcommercialbank@accountant.com) I am expecting your urgent response.



This is very simple and there is no single risk that will be involved.



My Regards to your family.

Dr.Kwame Nana

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