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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: "BADOO" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <aklbadoo2007@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:24:46 -0700
Subject: ENQUIRY

Dear good friend,
 
The entire family of Honorable Kwadwo Baah Wiredu
 
wish to inform you that our father,uncle and in-law
 
was Finance and Economic Planning Minister
 
Honorable Kwadwo Baah Wiredu until his death. He
 
died on Sept 24 2008 and was buried on October 2008
 
under NPP Party [National Patriotic Party].
My country had election and the ruling party lost
 
in the election under President John Agyekum Kufuor
 
and the new President Prof. Evans John Atta Mills
 
won the election and was sworn in on the 7th of
 
January 2009 Since after his death my sister and
 
children has been denied access to travel out
 
because his party in which my in law was serving as
 
a minister before his untimely death lost the
 
election and the present  government seized the
 
entire family traveling documents.
 
Before his death he deposited the sum of
 
USD$11,500,000.00 to a finance firm in Europe because he
 
is not allowed to deposit such fund in the bank to
 
avoid trace indeed all the documents concerning
 
this deposit are now with my sister the wife of the
 
late minister, of which we can make available once
 
you indicate your interest to take custody of this
 
funds on behalf of the family as our nominated next
 
of kin and his business associate before he died I
 
will discuss with my sister and the children to
 
allow you to take possession of the funds so that
 
the government will not trace it and confiscate the
 
money.
 
Further clarifications on this offer please copy
 
the link to you browser or click on it
 
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/photo.day.php?ID=150559
 
 
Please confirm your interest and readiness to work
 
with us at this address:  aklbadoo2007@gmail.com
 
so that I will give you the contact of the firm the
 
fund is deposited and the depositary documents so
 
that you can open up communication to claim the
 
fund.
 
Revert ASAP.
 
 
My regards,
 
Mr John K.Badoo

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