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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: "Dr Armbrose Dery" <armnodery@live.com>
Reply-To: deryarmbrose@yahoo.es
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:40:14 -0400
Subject: Good news (Payment released)

House of Parliaments Information Office
Parliament House, Accra-Ghana .


Attn: Beneficiary,

We the entire members of the House of the Parliament , on behalf of the
Government of Ghana , under the auspices of the new President of Ghana
held a meeting this week concerning payment, both foreign and local
contractors and some inheritance funds of lost and dead investors in Ghana
between 1960 to 2009 which were not released to the right benefactors and
also long dated contract payment sum of 1978/1981.

Mr. John Atta Mills the Honorable President of Ghana and the Speaker of
Parliament Mrs. Joyce Bamford-Addo has just informed this office the
House of Parliament of Ghana that All the listed contractors and
Inheritance funds benefactors which their CONTRACT PAYMENT SUM AND
INHERITANCE FUNDS were not paid to should be released to them with effect
so that the Global financial crisis rocking the world today will not
affect the goverment of Ghana

On going through files yesterday, we discovered that your file was dumped
untreated, so at this juncture, we apologize for the delay of your payment
and
please stop communicating with any office now and attention to the
appointed office below for you to receive your payment accordingly.

We discovered that your payment listed to us Five million two hundred
thousand dollars (US5.2M) approximately Three million five hundred
thousand Great
Britain Pounds(GBP3.5M), you are advised to respond with effect so that we
will process your payment to be made in any form you wish to receive your
funds
either by bank draft of direct wire transfer or inform our financial
institution where the funds will be package for delivery at your doorstep
.

Kindly respond to this office so that your payment will be process and
release under 5 days of your receiving this email for proper verification
of your
full detailed information for final processing of the release of your fund.

Now your new Payment Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632
Password No : 339331 , Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit
Payment No : 103,
Released Code No: 0763; Immediate Telex confirmation No: -1114433 ; Secret
Code No: XXTN013, Having received these vital payment number, therefore
You are
qualified now to receive and confirm Your payment with the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland immediately within 5 days.
You are directed to reconfirm your full detailed information as stated
below :

1) FULL NAME:
2) HOME ADDRESS:
3) OFFICE ADDRESS:
4) PROFESSION,MARITAL STATUS,AGE:
5) HOME PHONE NUMBER/WORK PHONE NUMBER and CELL PHONE NUMBER :
As well as time to call you on the phone.

NOTE: We have mounted our security network to monitor every in-coming
call, if we still find out that you are still dealing with all those
fraudsters that
have been frustrating you, we shall stop and cancel your payment
immediately .
Respectively ,

Dr. Ambrose Dery
Deputy Minority Leader
House of Parliament , Ghana.
drbhel@gmail.com

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