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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: wume kofi <kofiwum_bog@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:09:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Attention (Gov Needs Contractors)


Dear Sir,

The Government ha awarded a $12.5m contract for the building of Tourist Hotel/shopping Mall and Real Estate in In Ghana and its looking for a good and realaible foregn contractor for the project. Due the fast development scheme in Ghana the Government have also mandated that all contractors who indicate their intrest should forward their proposal two weeks before the contract payment will be made.how ever due to the international status and the layality shown by the internatiuonal contractors in this addministration the government has also made it a compolsary that all contractors will be paid %50 of their contract bill and after the contract is completed the full payment will be made.To commence this procedure kindly contact.

Dr. Koffi Wume
Minister for planning /infract-structure
+233-24-9427870.




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