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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: "From Mr. Kobby Asare" <infokobby@usa.org>
Reply-To: k.asare84@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 07:03:06 -0800
Subject: Hello Friend,

Hello Sir /Madam,

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 9 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 $10,350,000.00
(Ten 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.
Please if youare really sure you can handle this project, contact me immediately.

Yours Faithful,
Mr. Kobby Asare
k.asare84@yahoo.com

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