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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:
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: James Boateng <jboateng11@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:10:53 -0800 (PST)
Subject: International Remittance Manager
Dear Sir,
My
name is James Boateng I am compelled to
contact you as result of a lifetime business relationship I wished to
establish with your honorable self. I am a God fearing gentleman of the
confidence that God will certainly create an enabling environment in our
midst through which his name will be glorified,Am International
Remittance Manager International commercial Bank Of Ghana, Am contacting
you based on ($25.850.000.00) Twenty five Million Eight hundred and
Fifty thousand dollars that belong to our former Minister Of Finance
and Economic Planning Hon Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu under Ex president John
Agyekum Kuffour regime.
The Honorable Former Minister approach me
to transfer the money to any of our affiliated bank which he did not
want Ghana Government to know that the money belong to him and he told
me to find a trustworthy and dependable person who can handle this money
for him.Before his sudden death in South African hospital on 25th sep
2008.
Now i have succeeded
to lodge the money in Escrow Account of Our Bank,and also finished all
the plan to transfer the money out of Ghana to one of our Affiliated
Bank in Europe. I will use my power as Remittance manager to transfer
the fund to our Affiliated Bank in Europe,Meanwhile you are entitle to
50% after the fund might transfer from our affiliated bank in Europe to
any of your designation bank account,
I only needed you as
trustworthy and Honest person to handle this money with truth in you
which will enable me to use your information to transfer the money to
Europe and what you will do is to wait because the Affiliated bank in
Europe will contact you with your contact information as soon as the
money hit their bank in Europe and you will instruct them to transfer
the money to your account in Your Country Please Am seriously counting
on you to help me because i know that with your personality in your
country the
fund will be safe In your account.
Sincerely
James Boateng
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