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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: "Dr. Solomon Fahafa" <drsolomon-----546@att.net>
Reply-To: drsolomon6@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:10:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Please get back to me A.s.a.p



>From Dr. Solomon Fahafa

The Branch Manager,

Eco Bank Of Ghana

Kumasi Branch Office.



Hello Dear.

How are you today and your family? I hope all is good, kindly pay attention and understand my aim of communicating you today through this letter, My name is Dr. Solomon Fahafa, I am the Regional Managing Director of Eco Bank Of Ghana. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described here-under for our both mutual financial benefit and hope you will keep it a top secret because of the nature of the transaction.



I do not want problems but I just hope you can assist me bringing your bank account details for us to transfer some money and share it together, I write you this letter in good faith, I have a transaction of Seven million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars:($7,750,000.00).I want you to provide a bank account where this fund can be transferred into as soon as you can



I realized this fund from bank excess profit after trading with the capital sum and I deposited the funds in escrow call account. Where nobody will have access to it because it is seen as a dormant account. Even my bank head office in-charge of international money transfers does not have access to this account because it cannot be deducted, until after the transfer.



Finally I did not declare this fund to the bank up till now. I am contacting you to stand as the beneficiary of this fund because only a foreigner can stand as the beneficiary, because it is only a foreigner that can open this type of account here in Eco Bank Of Ghana. Can I trust you to hold this money for me until I come over to your country? After the transfer, I will give you 35% of the total money as your commission and 5 percent is for our expenses and the rest is for me and the peoples that are involved in this deal here, your duty is to provide an account as if the money belongs to you.



If you accept my offer kindly let me know immediately, all I need is for you to get a good bank account where this fund can be transferred into and for you to stand as the beneficiary of the said amount, within three days the funds will be transferred to your designated bank account in your country.



There is practically no risks involved in this business, it will be a bank-to-bank transfer. If you are interested reply immediately so that I will give you details on how we can achieve our aim as soon as possible. Thanks for your kind gesture.



Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Solomon Fahafa.

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