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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: "samuel kofi" <samuelkofi_25@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: samuel_kofi00@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:59:38 +0000
Subject: CO-OPERATION.

From: Mr. Samuel Kofi
Accra, Ghana.






Dear:

I got your contact during my search for a reliable,honest and a trust worth
person to entrust this huge transfer project with.My name is Mr.Samuel Kofi
manager of the financial institution .I am a Ghanaian married with four
kids. I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of
$4,550.000.00 million U.S dollars only,equivalent to 2.5 million pounds.

This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as
profit during the 2004 financial year. I have already submitted annual
report for that year to my head office here in Accra as I have watched with
keen interest as they will never know of this excess.

I have since, placed this amount of $4,550.000.00 million U.S dollars on an
Escrow Coded account
without a beneficiary (anonymous) to avoid trace.As an officer of the bank,
I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request
for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account on my
behalf.

I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be for me.I do need
to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this.It's going to
be a bank-to-bank transfer.

All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund so
that the fund can be
transferred to your account.If you accept this offer,Please get back to
me.But if you're not interested in this please do not reply.


Regards,
Mr. Samuel Kofi

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