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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: Edwin Anderson <edwinanderson77@gmail.com>
Reply-To: edwinanderson123@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:24:02 +0100
Subject: GET BACK TO ME

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Good day

My name is Mr. Edwin Anderson, I am the regional manager of Bank of
Ghana Takoradi branch in the western region of Ghana, I write you this
proposal in good faith; I am 47 years old married with two lovely kids
I am a devoted Christian and a man of peace I have packaged a
financial transaction that will benefit you and I, as the regional
manager of one of Bank here in Ghana, it is my duty to send in a
financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the
end of each business year. On the course of the last year 2009
business report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager
made fifteen million, eight hundred and fifty thousand United State
Dollars ($15,850,000) which my head office is not aware of and will
never be aware of.

I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account with no
beneficiary. As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected
to this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me receive
this money in your bank account and get 40% of the total funds as
commission. There are practically no risks involved, the transaction
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law, it will be simply a bank-to-bank transfer,
and all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of
these funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office
can order the transfer to your designated bank account under few
working days.

If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much as you
are the first and the only person, I am contacting for this
transaction. My private email is edwinanderson123@gmail.com sends me
mail as soon as you receive this message if you think we can work
together so that we can go over the details. Thank you in advance and
May God bless you and your family.
Yours truly

Mr. Edwin Anderson

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