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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: Mrs Kelvin Kwame <kelvinkwame37@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kelvin.k94@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:03:03 +0200
Subject: Business partnership.



--
Attn. sir/madam,

My name is Mrs Kelvin Kwame , residing in Ghana.
I am a banker and an Information Technology currently working with one
of the leading banks here in
Accra Ghana. I am contacting you to seek your partnership with me in
some lucrative Electronic Transfer
deals which could benefit us US$18.600.000.

DETAILS:
In 2019,the Ghana Banker's association did publish a list of dormant
accounts originally opened by
non-Ghanian citizens. This was done after intense pressure by Ghana
Central bank through the Ghanian Ministry of Finance and budget
planning. It was observed that
most of them have stayed up to 10 to 15 years and majority belonged
foreign Investors
who are Victims of war,plane crashes and other feared death of Ebola
virus diseases in Africa.

The continuing efforts of the Independent Committee of Ghanian Persons
(ICGP) have since resulted in
the discovery of more and more additional dormant accounts belonging to
a few Military dictators and
some sit-tight leaders of North Africa and the Middle East.

The published lists contained all types of dormant accounts, including
interest-bearing savings
accounts, securities accounts, safe deposit boxes, numbered accounts,
Un-numbered coded accounts,
and non-interest-bearing transaction accounts. Interestingly, so many
more were not uncovered
(especially the Un-numbered accounts)and there was no claims on these
funds or their next of kin.

In My bank I have broken some codes, bugged the bank’s database and have
been able to view some
of these accounts and secured one of the deposit slip belonging to A
German businessman and real
estate that died with his entire family in one of the plane crash
recently. I need a foreigner or any
account holder
outside of Ghana to partner with me in the transfer of the funds out of
this account.
I already have secure and encrypted cross-border wire transfer platform
which guarantees safe
transfer process to Turkey where we shall transfer the fund to a
corresponding bank for further credit to your account any part of the
world.


Thanking you in anticipation to your prompt response.

With regards,
Mrs Kelvin Kwame

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