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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: "koffben1@libero.it" <koffben1@libero.it>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:23:02 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME

Dear Friend,

First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of
its nature as being utterly Confidential and top secret.Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I
am assuring you that this is real and genuine. My name is Mr Benson Koffi I am
the manager of the standard chartered bank of Ghana Taroradi branch. I am a
Ghanaian married with four kids.

I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of(US$5,200,000.00)
five million two hundred thousand united state dollars.This fund is the excess
of what my branch in which I am the manager made as profit during the last
year. I have already submitted an approved end of the year report for the year
2013 to my head office here in Accra and they will never know of this excess.

I have since then, placed this amount of (US$5,200,000.00) on a suspense
account without a beneficiary. As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly
connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to
receive this money into your bank account.

I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be for me. Ido need
to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this.Its going to be a
bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as the original
depositor of this fund.If you accept this offer, Get back to me with the
following information

(1) You Full names:

(2) Your Private phone number:

(3) Your Current residential address:

(4) Your Occupation with company name if available:

(5) Your Age and Sex:

I will appreciate your timely response.

With Regards,

Mr Benson Koffi

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