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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: "Mr.Peter Kwame" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <peter.12000@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:43:33 +0100
Subject: From : Mr.Peter Kwame

From:Mr.Peter Kwame
The Accounts Director
Standard Chartered Bank of Ghana

Attn:Dear Friend,

I wish to contact you on a good business which I want you to assist me to receive this fund into your bank account in your country, I believe that this will really work out between us and kindly keep this information secretly because it’s very confidential.

My name is Mr. Peter Kwame, Accounts Director of Standard Chartered Bank of Ghana . I decided to contact you directly to solicit your assistance and guidelines in making a business investment and transfer of sixteen million Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand USD $(16.820.000.00 USD) can be paid /transferred to your country through you. I really do hope that you could be trusted and reliable to hold this money until I come to your country after the transfer? I have been investigating and making research particularly about an account in my department that has been UN-operational for over four years.

But at this moment, I am restrain to issue more details about this profitable Business investment until I get your response by mail. Kindly reply this mail if you are interested, I will give you the full details of the business as soon as I receive a positive reply indicating your interest in participating in this project. Your percentage is secure; to facilitate a rather safer link with you, please forward to me the followings:

Full Names:
Full Contact Address:
Telephone, Fax and Cell phone numbers:
Occupation:
Age:
Nationality:

Accept my warm regards as I await your response.

Mr. Peter Kwame

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