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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. JOHN ABBEY" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnremm.vmg@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:48:40 -0800
Subject: AWAIT FOR YOUR REPLY.

Mr. John Abbey
Branch Manager
Standard Chartered Bank
Takoradi Ghana
My Private Tel: (+233 261 581 596)

Esteemed Compliments,

Ianticipate that you read this mail quickly and let me know your opinionor willingness on this classified information that I will release to you.

Firstly, I am a happily married man with 4 kids and therefore Iwould not want to jeopardize this opportunity to change my financialstatus that will give my family a secured future.

I am Mr. JohnAbbey, the branch manager of the Standard Chartered Bank Of Ghana,Takoradi Branch . I got your information during my search through theInternet. I am 47 years of age and married with 4 lovely kids. It mayinterest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want anyproblem, but I don't know how you will feel about this, but I amtelling you that this is real and you are not going to regret afterdoing 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 willnot contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both ofus, as the Regional manager of the Standard Chartered Bank Of Ghana,Takoradi Branch; It is my duty to send in a financial report to my headoffice in the capital city Accra-Ghana at the end of each year. On thecourse of the year 2008 end of year report, I discovered that my branchin which I am the Manager made Seven Million Six Hundred and FiftyThousand Dollar [$7,650.000.00] which my head office are not aware ofand they will never be aware of, Nor must they know that I am involvedin this transaction.

I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE OR ESCROWACCOUNT without any beneficiary. As an officer of the bank I can not bedirectly connected to this money, so this informed my contacting youfor us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your bankaccount for us to SHARE, while you will have 35% of the total fund.

Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank tobank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the rightfuldepositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that myHead office can order the transfer to your designated bank account. Ifyou accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much.As soon as I receive your kind response, I will give you details on howwe can achieve it successfully. Please to proceed with me in thistransaction i will appreciate if you provide me this informationmentioned below.

1) Full Name
2) Occupation
3) Age:
4) Telephone Number/fax
5) Your Country of Origin:
6) Sex/ Marital Status:
7) Contact Address:

Thank you in advance and bless you and your family.

Yours truly,
Mr. John Abbey

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