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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: "Brigadier General Johnson Mensah" <info@norma.net>
Reply-To: generall_johnsonmensah@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0200
Subject:

Hello My Friend!!

I am Brigadier General Johnson Mensah the Presidential Special Initiative. I am mailing you in
respect, of the present development going on here in my country GHANA. I decided to contact you,
after much investigation which was carried out by the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) and also
with the Ghana Police Service, in order to make sure that our country is free from those fraudulent
activities, which is going on here in Africa and for our country to also bear a good name.

The Airport Authority detected some trunk boxes after been scanned, the authorities detected that
the boxes contains funds on your name and email that has been tempered on, they were been smuggled
into the country by foreign Personnel who were on transit from London. These men were trying to enter
the country with the trunk boxes, when the airport authority detected that these boxes contains, some
huge amount of United State Dollars. After much investigation we found out that these men were among
those men, spoiling the good name of Africa. They opened up to us that, they actually work with a
Lotto company before their dismissal and used the opportunity to perpetuate their crimes, they told
us that the funds inside the boxes was won by you, but now they planned to turn back on you and
decided to take the money all to themselves out of the country. We later found out on the
investigation that was carried out, these men are truly members of a well established organization in
United Kingdom..

As I write you this mail now, the three(3) men that were caught are now in the custody of the Ghana
Police Service over here in our country Ghana, while we are trying to track the others left, because
they have proved to us that they belong to one organization. That is why we have to reach you by your
mail address and name that was tagged in the boxes, so we can make arrangement on the delivery of the
recovered boxes by a United Nation Diplomatic Personnel.

Your urgent response will be very much appreciated as soon as you have received this email.Thank you
for your kind attention, for us to make sure our beloved country Ghana, bears a good name.Please you
are to provide this below information's..

A: FULL NAMES:
B: ADDRESS:
C: DIRECT CONTACT PHONE NUMBER:
D: SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR ANY RELEVANT
IDENTIFICATION PASSPORT.

This information will be required, by the authorities in Ghana to draft the new change of ownership
in your name as the rightful owner of the funds in our custody and also to verify the information
given to us because the documentations covering the boxes have been tampered on.

Regards,

Brigadier General Johnson Mensah

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