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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: John Kofi <johnkofi1959@att.net>
Reply-To: johnjohnkofi1959@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:50:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FORM Mr JOHNKOFI THANKs



FROM THE DESK OF

Mr. JOHN KOFI

REGIONAL MANAGER

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK

KUMASI BRANCH GHANA.



Hello Dear,



My name is Mr. John Kofi, I am the regional manager of the International

Commercial Bank kumasi branch Ghana. I got your information during my

search through the Internet. I am 42years of age and married with 2 lovely

kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a man of peace and don't want

problem,but i don't know how you will feel about this because you might feel

that its scam yes there are many scammers. but am telling you that this is

real and you are not going to regret after doing this transaction with me.

I only hope we can assist each other.But If you don't want this business

offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you again.



I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as

the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank; it is my duty to

send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra-Ghana

at the end of each year. On the course of the year 2008 end of year report,

I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made four Million five

hundred thousand United States dollar [$4,500.000.00] which my head office

are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on

what we call suspense account without any beneficiary.



As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this money, so

this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist

receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you will

have 40% of the total fund .Note there are practically no risk involved, it

will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the

original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so

that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much.

As soon as I receive your response I will details you on how we can achieve

it successfully.



Best Regards

Mr. John Kofi

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