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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. ASARE KOBBY" <k.asare677@gmail.com>
Reply-To: k.asare84@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:20:16 -0700
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Hello Sir /Madam,

Hi, Greetings

With warm heart I offer my friendship and greetings, First of all, I
use this opportunity to introduce myself, my name is Mr Kobby Asare.I
am 48 years and i work with one of the top leading banks as an Account
Officer. There in this bank existed a dormant account for the past 8
years which belong to an engineer who worked with Shell petroleum
Development Company Takoradi,Ghana named EngineerA.M Parker. But
Unfortunately, my client lost his life along the New York Lincoln
tunnel expressway, which crashed on the April, 2012. When I discovered
that there had been no deposits nor withdrawals from this account for
this long period, I decided to carry out a system investigation and
discovered that non of the family member nor relations of the late
person is aware of this account. Since then I have made several
inquiries to locate any of my late clients extended relatives of which
proved unsuccessful,I have since then, placed this amount of
$7,350,000.00(Seven Million three hundred and Fifty Thousand United
States Dollars). on a SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without a beneficiary. As an
officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus
I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money
into your bank account to avoid my bank confiscating the entire
amount. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk
involved in this.I seek your assistance to present you as the Next of
kin\Beneficiary to this funds since you are a foreigner.I guarantee
you that this transaction will be executed under legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. 40% of
this money will be for you, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account and 50% for me, 5% will be used for the reimbursement of any
expenditure we may incur in the cause of the transaction while the
remaining 5% will go to the Charity Organization.I will be very happy
if you help me invest my share in your country.It is going to be a
bank-to bank transfer from my head office here in Accra where every
international transfers are been conducted to your account.The
transfer will take only 72hr from my head office into your nominated
bank account anywhere you feel safer.

All I need from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see it
through.On receipt of your positive response. As you reply, let me
have the following information which I will present to the Remittance
department of our bank for a swift transfer and also for the
documentation of probate processes if you have the faith. These are
the information's:

1.Your full names:

2.Your date of birth:

3.Your private email address:

4.Cope of Your Identification card,Driving license or passport:

5.Your private telephone:

6.Marital status:

7.Your Occupation:

8.Your Nationality:

9.Gender /Sex:

I am looking forward to hear from you soonest.
Yours Faithfully
Mr. K.Asare
Email ---: ( k.asare677@gmail.com )

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