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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: "Richard Donkor" <rd_dk19@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rd_dk2@latinmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:38:42 +0000
Subject: seeking your consent in business

From:The Manager,
Eco Bank Ghana Ltd.
Ring road Branch
Accra, Ghana.
+233-24-6959615

Hello Dear

I got your contact during my search on the Internet for a reliable person to
entrust this transaction.
My name is Richard Donkor. I am the assistant manager of the Eco Bank Ghana
Ltd. I am
writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of $ 15,000,000.

This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the assistant manger
made as profit during the last year. I have already submitted an approved
End of the Year report for the year 2003 to my Head Office here in Accra and
they will never know of this Excess.

I have since then, placed this amount of US$ 15,000,000 on a SUSPENCE
ACCOUNT without a
beneficiary. 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. 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. If
you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response.

With regards,

Mr.Richard Donkor.

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