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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. Daniel Abak" <james2024@adinet.com.uy>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:04:58 +0200
Subject: Complment" From Mr. Daniel

Compliment,

My name is Mr. Daniel Abak, a politician and an immediate past member of
Ghana Parliamentary (MP). I am a member of my party’s executive committee on
contract awards.My aim of contacting you is to crave your indulgence to
assist me in securing some funds abroad for safe keeping which incidentally
was kept to help me finance the just concluded elections campaign last
December 7th 2008, which the winner was finally decided through a runoff
election held on 28th December 2008. Unfortunately for my party the National
Patriotic Party (NPP) lost the government seat to our opposition Party the
National Democratic Congress (NDC).

But with my immediate assistance, and contact, I was able to deposit some
money in a security vault with a commercial bank in Ghana pending when I
will found a trustworthy person to move out the fund from Ghana to overseas
bank account for business investment. The need to contact you arose from the
fact that the present elected government vow to crack down on past immediate
government functionaries of (NPP) and trying to trace all the funds that was
made through contract awards and other mouth watering deals during our
tenure in the office from the year 2000 to 2008, if they succeed in tracing
this fund to us, they will seize it and thereby incapacitating my life time
opportunities.

I wish to relocate this fund in a foreigner's name to avoid any trace. All I
need from you is an assurance that you can handle the amount involved
(US$19,500,000) comfortably and that I can also trust you. Be fully rest
assured that there is no risk involved since I have taken care of every
underground work relating to the perfection of this opportunity.

I want you to immediately inform me of your willingness in assisting and
co-operating with me, so that I can send you full details of this
transaction. I will also appreciate if you can maintain the confidential
nature of this letter and the whole transaction process. Please if you are
not interested in this business, let me know in time, so that I can contact
someone else.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Daniel Abak

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