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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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Fraud email example:

From: mrs linda <linda_ofori006@yahoo.com.mx>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:53:45 -0600 (CST)
Subject: From: Linda Ofori


From: Linda Ofori
Manager
International Commercial Bank
Takoradi Ghana.
Attn:
My name is Linda Ofori , I am the regional manager of
the International Commercial Bank of Ghana Takoradi in
the Western Region of Ghana. I got your information
during my search through the Internet. I am 44years of
age and married with 3 lovely kids. It may interest
you to hear that I am a women of PEACE and don't want
problem, I only hope we can assist each other. If you
don't want this business offer kindly forget it as I
will not contact you again.
I have packaged a financial transaction that will
benefit both of us, as the regional manager of the
International Commercial Bank; it is my duty to send
in a financial report to my head office in the capital
city Accra at the end of each year. On the course of
the last year 2005 end of year report, I discovered
that my branch in which I am the manager made one
million five hundred and fifty thousand dollars
[1,550.000.00] which my head office are not aware of
and will never be aware of. I have since place this
fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any
beneficiary.
As an officer of the bank I can not be directly
connected to this money, so this informed my
contacting you for us to work so that you can assist
receive this money into your bank account for us to
SHARE. While you will have 30% of the total fund .Note
there are practically no risk involved, it will be
bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand
claim as the original depositor of this fund who made
the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can
order the transfer to your designated bank account. If
you accept this offer to work with me, I will
appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your
response I will details you on how we can achieve it
successfully.
Best regards,
Linda Ofori




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