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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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Fraud email example:

From: <mara@kdsinter.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 20:05:12 +0100
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL


Hello Dear,
I am contacting you base on recommendation, trust and confidentiality. First let me introduce myself to you. My name is Mr, William Kofi I am the Regional bank manager of Ghana Commercial Bank Limited. I am 51 years of age and married with 3 lovely kids. I only hope we can assist each other.
have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the manager of Ghana Commercial Bank Limited.. it is my duty to send a financial report to our head office in the capital city at the end of each annual general meeting.On the course of last annual general meeting which ended last weeks, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made an excess profit of Five Million Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand united states dollars [USA $ 5.750,000] which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of.

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