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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: Mohamed Raffat <cesttout@msn.com>
Reply-To: Mohamed Raffat <mohemed.raffat@gmail.com>
Date: 10 Aug 2018 03:54:43 -0700
Subject: Reply,

Greetings,

It is indeed my pleasure and honor to write you this letter, which I believe will be a surprise to you as we have never met before, my name is Mr. Mohamed Raffat. I am a Retired Regional Manager of Aises Bank Ghana Ltd. Kaneshi Branch in the greater Accra region of Ghana. I got your information on our recent bank conference with other West African countries held in Lome the capital city of Togo in West Africa.

I write you this proposal in good faith. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and me, as the regional manager Aises Bank Ghana Ltd; it is my duty to give a financial report of my branch to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each business year. On the course of 2017 business report, I discovered that I deposited sun of (US$9. 950, 000, 00) Nine Million Nine Hundred fifty Thousand US Dollars, through the former director of Gold Marketing Department of Ghana Gold Corporation. Chief, Dr, Engr. Nana Mensah in this branch which I am the manager. He was facilitated an award of one-year-term Gold marketing Broker to an Italian broker. He has a mutual understanding to 'TOP' his shipments above the quantity that was officially granted to him.

This was how he generated this amount (US$9. 950, 000, 00) Nine Million Nine Hundred fifty Thousand US Dollars, as being stated above in his favor in the custody of my branch. Now Chief, Dr, Engr. Nana Mensah is late without any beneficiary to this fund and according to the information I got about him, he was single without any child. And my head office is not aware of it and will never be aware of it. 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 fund, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this fund in your bank account and get 40% of the total funds as commission. There are practically no risks involved, it will be a bank-to-bank transfer and all I need from you is to stand and 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. If you accept to work with me, I will appreciate it very much. Thank you in advance and May God bless you and your family.

Best Regards
Mohamed Raffat,

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