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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: Mr.Anslema Mensah. <business@coastalaska.org>
Reply-To: <Anslemamensah@webmail.cd>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:02:46 -0700
Subject: To whom it may concern,

To whom it may concern,
 
Can you recollect how much you have invested in this shipment/bank transfer, yet no success? 
 
This office have been legally mandated by the President of the Republic of Ghana (Nana Akufo-Addo) to carry out proper investigation based on your communication with some group of fraudulent syndicates who claims to be a General in the Army, Gold Dealer, Diplomat, Custom officer of all kinds with fake
promises of shipping trunk box to your house. Nevertheless, the information reaching us confirms that One Colonel O'connor(fraudster) has duped you over 25,000.00 Dollars.  Is this true?  IF YES, we will like to see evidence showing that such money was actually stolen from you by these fraudulent syndicates.
We wish that this letter will create a disorder to your feelings of having to do with these fraudulent syndicates who has misled you and other International beneficiaries with all manners of letter heads and fake identifications whiles they are common Ghanaians and Nigerians.We sincerely advise that, for security
 
reasons, you have to sto it with immediate effect stop further communication with such person(s) and cling onto this office of Bureau of National Investigation, as that is the only way of getting back every single cent/dim you may have paid to these hoodlums.
We urge you to forward all related emails to this office for further investigation.Although, we have assigned well trained detectives after this fraudulent syndicates and if any of them is caught and find guilty he/she will be reprehended in our custody for 24 years.Finally we apologize on behalf of His
Excellency, Mr. President Nana Akufo-Addo and the good citizen of Ghana, for any tragedy you may have experienced whiles dealing with these unknown citizens and we assure you that we are making effort to making sure that these people are brought to book..
 
Regards,
 
Mr.Anslema Mensah.,

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