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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: Malam Usman <malamusman02@gmail.com>
Reply-To: malamusman0011@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:52:32 +0300
Subject: [***** SPAM 24.0 *****] IMPORTANT MESSAGE



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Though, this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach
you through it because it still remains the fastest medium of communication
I will be happy to work this deal out with if you are ready and have a
means to accommodate the fund, and if you are capable to keep this deal
TOP SECRET,I need strong assurance that you will never let me down, if the
fund gets to you.

I am Malam Usman,Director Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) since my
assumption of office, I have been able to offset most Overdue contract sums

owed by the Government of Ghana to Foreign contractors in the past
years.In the process of these payments, I discovered through investigation
that
my predecessor moved out $8.5M (Eight Million five hundred thousand united
state dollars) outside but was unable to conclude the transaction before he

was removed out of office unaware and the bank codes changed.
The fund originated from the balance of over-invoiced sum and inflated
government contracts of which the principal sum had been paid to foreign
contractors that executed their contract some years ago. This fund is now
floating in a suspense account of our bank and will be moved by telegraphic

transfer within 48 hours of perfection of your account coordinates.

I have concluded all necessary Arrangements for the TRANSFER of the money
to an account, Contacting you on this issue became imperative to owing to
the fact that the transfer cannot be affected without a second party
account and receiving Bank Code and SWIFT numbers.
Therefore, what is required from you is trust and honesty. No travel is
required; I will forward an account where my share will be further
transferred to when the money reaches your bank. At the moment I can only
give information that is reasonably able to assist the transaction without
jeopardize my person, work or this transaction? Please send detail
information,

1 your full names................................................
2, your telephone/fax numbers............................
3, profession.......................................................
4, age/sex............................................................
5, marital status...................................................
6, Occupation.....................................................

You can email now to indicate your willingness.Thanks in advance for a
mutual and fruitful Business association.
and I want to assure you that this business is risk free.
Regards
Malam Usman

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