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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: "Charles Asare" <asare_chally6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: asare_chally1@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:03:21 +0000
Subject: Hello From Mr.Charles.

Greetings to you,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail
and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must come to you as a big
surprise,
but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and
business partners.

My name is Mr.Charles Asare, the present branch Manager of a bank here in
Ghana. I
write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with
the
information I am about to reveal to you. Like I said, I have a transaction
that will
benefit both of us, as your assistance is required as a foreigner.

I use to head the Accounts department in my bank head office, but last
December I
was asked to take position of a Manager of our branch in Kumasi who passed
on, so
that was how I became the present Manager and discovered a fortune. As I
resumed
duty, I discovered an account with total sum of $15,850,000 million that has
not
been operated on for the past 4 years. From my investigation, I found out
that this
account belongs to one Late Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER a German great
industrialist and
a resident of Munich, who unfortunately lost his life along with his entire
famillies in the plane crash of CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight AF4590 ] which
crashed on
25TH JULY, 2000. You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this
site,
which I got during my investigation;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.

The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my bank and
no other
person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has
no other
beneficiary. I have kept a close monitoring of the account since then and
nobody
has come forward to ask about the money as next of kin to the late Mr.
Andreas
Schranner, meaning that no one is aware of the account. I cannot directly
take out
this money without the help of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting
you for
an assistance to claim the funds and share it with me. As the Manager of my
bank
branch, I have the power to influence the release of the funds to any
foreigner that
comes up as the next of kin to the account, with the correct information
concerning
the account, which I shall give you.

I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to the
account, so
that my bank head quarters will release the funds to you. There is
practically no
risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of law.

If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share
the
funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. Contact me as
soon as
you receive this message if you feel we can work together, so we can go over
the
details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you. Please, treat with
utmost
confidentiality. I wait your urgent response. My phone number is +233
244973879.

Regards,

Charles.
Email:challysasare@myway.com


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