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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: "jhon bunie" <jbstb2@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 11:46:29 +0000
Subject: From: John Bunie

From: John Bunie
Manager
standard Trust Bank
Accra Ghana.

Attn: sir,

My name is John Bunie, I am the regional manager of the standard Trust
Bank of Ghana , Accra 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 man 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 standard trust 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 6,750.000.00] 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,

Mr John Bunie.

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