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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: "Republic of Ghana" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info.paymaster@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:31:12 -0000
Subject: This is your file number. File No. Ghana/Final/Pay/Tranf/0093938/2009?

The Paymaster General of Republic of Ghana
Register General of Ecowas
Office of the Presidency
Republic of Ghana,
Payment Transfer Information

Attn:

With strong approval and mandate from the Office of Presidency, Republic of Ghana in connection with The IMF, World Banking Co-operation, International Institute of Bankers, The Association of European Central Bank, Asia and Pacific Central Banking, The Arab Banking Cooperation.

With laid down policy signed in New York with all the mentioned bodies including United States of America and United Kingdom, a strong agreement covering the United Nations Security Council Resolution has been reached, agreed and signed as follows.

The Ghana Government has agreed to transfer your fund direct to you, without you communicating with any other person(s), party or any finance house. This is so, because of increase of illegal activities going on today within the Africa Region.

Your partner gave us this information to transfer your fund to Thailand

Below is the account provided to the Ghana Ministry of Finance by your Partner at the Ecowas meeting held in Togo last week to approve for a foreign exchange allocation of your remittance, kindly reconfirm and cross-check if the account information is correct once again before the final approval for payment commence.

Bank's name: T.M.B.Bank Public Company Limited.
Bank's address: 3000 Phaholyothin Road,Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900,Thailand.
Account's name: Chaiyawat Kunatham
Account's no: 001-7-75977-0
Telephone no; 662 617 9111
Fax no: 662 273 7121-7124
Swift code: TMBKTHBK

Please kindly reconfirm the below information without delay if the above is correct or wrong because by next week we shall commence remittance of your fund to Thailand which was supplied to us by your partners ..

1) Your full name and Postal Address to send original documents after transfer
2) Yours private Phone for easy and in case of urgent communication with you.
3) Prove of Identification ( e.g) Driver's license. National ID Card Or International Passport. to ensure we are dealing with rightful owner of the fund
4) Occupation and Age.

Also you should reconfirm your bank account if the one above is wrong to avoid remittance into wrong account.

You Better Comply With Us For Own Good My Telephone Number is : +233 24 9927672

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Joseph Robert Mensah
The Paymaster General of Republic of Ghana.
Tel: +233 24 9927672 ( Pls call me immediately after reading this email)

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