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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: "Timothy Appiah." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <appiaht1@blumail.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:55:31 -0000
Subject: Call +233 268109616 for your Trunks

This is Federal Task force Authority Ghana.

Please ,we will be glad if you supply us with clues to this letter , The Government of Ghana has been mandated to release all your approved funds to you in the directives of United Nations. This release was carried out by Ghana central Bank releasing the total amount of $5.2 Million Dollars to you including all your lost funds which unscrupulous individuals/organizations collected from you during your pursuit to get your funds in Africa.

Because of poor International Bank transfers between Africa and the West and due to past failures to successfully transferring these funds to you, The Bank Of Ghana was directed to package these funds in a trunk box under High insurance and immunity, all the required authorities were present for supervision and security order ,during the packaging such as; International Monetary agency,IMF Representative, World Bank Rep, West-African Monetary Unit, Printing and Minting Company of Ghana and security intelligence were all present.This trunk can never be opened or tampered with after it was packaged because of the high insurance and security-order until it gets to the beneficiary.
As such, this trunk was deposited in a government approved company , Chase security and Trust Company Ghana for you to contact them and claim this box.
Due to the fact that this fund release is Free-willed , the government volunteered to take responsibility of securing clearance papers such as; Ant-terrorist certificate, Drug-Free certificate ,obtaining the yellow-tag and also settling all delivery charges,which will cover this trunk so that it will not be trapped down by any authority whatsoever and for it to pass freely through Kotoka international airport Accra Ghana and also through your local airport.

The only fee which you are required to pay is the demmurage of this trunk since it was deposited in this company since last month. Government did not make any available fee for the demmurage because , the time/date which we are able to contact all beneficiaries is not guaranteed because of loss of contact information and the time a beneficiary gets to know about this trunk deposit varies individually, so the government could not specify the exact date we can be able to contact you and thereby , did not provide funds for the demmurage.

However,I have studied this project and after I went through your information , I have a thought that you must be a good person and honest man to deal with and I decided that I will talk to you so that we can do this transaction together , because with my position here, I will make sure that this trunk is released and delivered in your house address .And any fees that will come up , we will settle it together.And after you receive the trunk, I can now fly into your country to meet you for us to settle.I will suggest that we handle this 50/50 , so that every expenses will be shared equally and also when the trunk is delivered to you, the money will also be shared in the same ratio as we have spent. If you accept me to help you to do this in good faith, we can proceed.

You are expected to re-confirm with us your ; Full names , Contact address , Telephone Number , Fax (if Any ) , Send also any of your Personal ID , so that we can go ahead to give you details and guild lines for us to proceed.
I wait for your quick response so that we can handle this project at the earliest time.

You can as well call this line for more information : +233 26 810 9616
Gen. Timothy Appiah.
HEAD ( FTAG)

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