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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: Frank Kwame <frankkwame99@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <branchmanager2@thetrustbankghana.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 05:36:11 +0000
Subject: From The desk of Mr.Kwame



From The desk of,Mr.Frank KwameThe Branch ManagerThe Trust Bank of GhanaSobukwe BranchAccra, Ghana.Email:branchmanager2@thetrustbankghana.com
Attn Friend, I am Mr. Frank Kwame, the branch manager of The TrustBank of Ghana Limited, Sobukwe Branch Accra. I am aChristian and Ghanaian married with two lovely kids. With due apologies to the interference into yourprivacy I am writing to request your assistance in theRemittance of US$7.2000, 000.00 Million Dollars. Thisfund is the excess of what my branch in which I am themanager made as operational profit last year.

I have already submitted an approved End of the Yearearnings report to my Head Office here in Accra andthey will never know of this Excess fund.

Since then, I placed this ($7,200,000.00)7.2 Milion united states Dollars. On an Escrow call account without any beneficiary secured with a PIN CODE. As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directlyconnected to this money thus I am impelled to requestfor your assistance to receive this money into yourbank account.

I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70%shall be for me. I do need to stress that there arepractically no risk involved in this. It is going tobe a bank-to-bank transfer to your nominated bankaccount anywhere in the world, there is no legalimplications or whatsoever. All I need from you is to stand as the originaldepositor of this fund and I will provide you with theALL IMPORTANT SECRET PIN CODE to access the accountand enable the headquarters of my bank effect the wiretransfer to you. If you accept this offer, I willappreciate your timely response. Also you can forwardyour private phone number for speedy relation on thismatter. Remember I am still working with the bank hence strictconfidentiality is needed in this transaction. Trustand honesty is the watchword of this our dealings as Iwant to repose a very huge amount of trust in you. With regards,Mr.Frank Kwame.












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