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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Lewis Dakwesi" <mrlewis.dakwesi@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:32:57 +0000
Subject: Good Day

Dear Friend,

Esteemed compliments!!

I anticipate that you read this mail quickly and let me know your
opinion or willingness on this classified information that I will
release to you. Firstly, I am a happily married man with 3 kids and
therefore I would not want to jeopardize this opportunity to change my
financial status that will give my family a secured future.

My name is Mr.Lewis Dakwesi, I am ears of age and married with 3
lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and
don't want problem,but I don't know how you will the Branch manager of
the International Commercial Bank, Kaneshie branch Ghana. I got your
information during my search through the Internet. I am 51 yfeel about
this, but I am telling you that this is real and you are not going to
regret after doing this transaction with me. I only hope we can assist
each other. But If you don't want this business offer kindly forget it
as I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us,
as the Branch manager of the International Commercial Bank; It is my
duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital
city Accra-Ghana at the end of each year.On the course of the last
year 2012 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I
am the Manager made Eight Million Seven HundreAd and Seventy Thousand
Dollars [$8,770,000.00] which my head office are not aware of and will
never be aware of, Nor must they know that I am involved in this
transaction.

I have since placed this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without
any beneficiary. As an officer of the bank I can not be directly be
connected to this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to
work so that you can assist receive this money into your bank account
for us to SHARE. While you will have 45% of the total fund. Note there
are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer,
all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of
this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office
can order the transfer to your designated bank account. If you accept
this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much. As soon as
I receive your kind response, I will give you details on how we can
achieve it successfully.

Please contact me via E-mail for more
details.Emai(mrlewis.dakwesi@hotmail.com)

Best Regards

Mr. Lewis Dakwesi

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