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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: Francis Alexander <sirfrancisalex@zwallet.com>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 10:59:39 -0400
Subject: Your Assistance is needed

From the Francis Alexander

Manager International Commercial Bank

Tema, Ghana.



Attention sir,



I hope this may not constitute sort of embarrassment to you. First I must solicit your confident in this transaction, this is by the virtue of its nature as being utterly confident and top secret but am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of your discreetness and ability in transaction of this nature.



Let start by introducing myself properly to you, my name is

Mr. Francis Alexander, I am the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank of Ghana Tema. I came to know you in my private search for reliable and reputable person to handle this confidential transaction. I am 41years of age and married with 4kids. It may interest you to hear that am a man of PEACE AND INTERGRITY; I only hope we can assist each other. I have package a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the regional 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 at the end of each year. On the course of the last year 2004 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made $1,230.000.00 (one million two hundred and thirty thousand USDOLLARS) which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary. As an officer of the bank I can not be dir!
ectly connected to this money, so this make me to contact you for us to work so that you can assist and receive this money into your bank account for us to share. The sharing of this fund are thus 30% for you and 50% for me and the remaining 20% for any legal expenses we have acquired in this transaction.



Note there are practically no risk involved in this transaction, it is 100% risk free and legally binded, it is 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 find this proposal suitable for you, do furnish me with the following information&#8217;s: Your full name and contact Address, Your private phone number, your age your occupation and position.



I will appreciate very much if this proposal is acceptable by you. Do not make undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you but how we can achieve it successfully.



Best Regards,

Mr. Francis Alexander

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