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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: Frank Mesah <frank_mesah22@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:33:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PROPOSAL.


No 7 st Johns road,Accra Ghana
Contact :00233-243-770526
Reply to:frankleex@yahoo.com
Dear Friend,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, Let me start by introducing myself properly to you.

My name is Mr.FRANK.E.MESAH, the manager credit and foreign bills of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK {ADB}. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank with account number14-255-2004/utb/t who perished in a plane crash [Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers and his name was Burke Sean.

Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of $26 million us dollars, [Twenty Six million united states dollars] which has been with my branch for a very long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than five years, because money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after this period. In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal.

I will give you (US$5M) million United States dollars of the total. Upon the receipt of your response, I will like you to send me your details on how to execute the transfer.

I will send you by fax or e-mail the banks application and the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within seven banking days, after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased. So to assure you very well you can go to http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/ when you receive this letter.

Kindly send me an e-mail signifying your decision including your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication. Contact me through my private email: frankleex@yahoo.com or call me on this number.

Best regards,

Mr. FRANK.E.MESAH.





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