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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: haatso_ibgh@latinmail.com
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:08:30 +0800 (CST)
Subject: With Regards


From: Mr.Ibrahim Haatso
Accra, Ghana.

Good day,

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.Ibrahim Haatso, Branch manager of a financial institution here in Ghana. I am a Ghanaian married with four kids. I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of $6,720,000.00 Million United States dollars

This fund is the excess of what my branch in which am the manager made as profit during the 2006 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 $ 6,720,000.00 Million United States dollars only to 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 25% of this fund to you while 75% 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, I will appreciate your timely response urgently on my direct alternative email ID (haatso_ibgh@latinmail.com) with your contact phone number, if you think we can work together, so that we move over to the details.

With Regards,
Mr.Ibrahim Haatso.

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