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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. Kojo Appiah" <kojo_appiah27@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kojo_appiah@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:02:10 +0100
Subject: Partnership Request

Dear Sir,

Naturally this letter will come to you as a surprise
since we do not know each other, please permit me
however to inform you that I am Kojo Appiah, a
staff of the Ministry of Finance and Ecnomic planning
here in Ghana.

At the risk of boasting, I wish that you understand
that I am a top personal aid to the Minister and
therefore, I am privy to several pieces of
information. This aside, I am the secretary to the
Contract payment committee.

Subsequent upon the recent debt relief granted by the
G8 Nations to the Republic of Ghana, the Government
under the leadership of his Excellency, President John
A. Kufour, has decided to pay off all the accumulated
back-log of contract debts owed to both local and
foreign contractors.

However, some of this contract debts span from the
regime of his excellency, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
down to the PNDC government of Flt. Lt. John J.
Rawlings and to his NDC government days even to the
first tenure of President Kufour. To this effect, some
of the contractors can no longer be traced as they
have tried severally to receive their payment without
success. Obviously, some may have died.

The proposal:
I wish to implore you to come in as our partner to
claim the sum of $185 Million United States Dollars
which is payment due some contractors who built the
Akosombo Hydro-electric dam. The contract was divided
in 3 phases. The civil contractors, the water
engineers and the electrical engineering company. I
understand that you may not know anything about this
subject and you may not even be conversant with the
procedure for building a dam. But do not worry as we
have covered all the bases.

All we need to do is apply for an initial payment of
48 Million United States Dollars for the first phase
of the contract. As soon as this is successfully
transferred to your account, we will apply for the
other balance. You do not need to worry about the
original contractors. This has already been taken care
of. We removed some of the files when we took them for
review. All we have to do is replace them with your
company details.

As soon as this is done, we shall approve your file
for immediate payment. Once again, do not worry about
this, it will be approved. We have estimated that t
will take between 10 and 14 working days to complete
this project.

Should you wish to participate, please email through
alternative email address: kojo_appiah@tiscali.com <mailto:kojo_appiah@tiscali.com>
You may be worried about the legitimacy of this, you
may also be worried about if it were found out. The
answer is do not worry, everything has been carefully
thought out and planned. Should you have any questions
of whatever nature, please do not hesitate to ask me.

By the way, you may be worried that this is a scam.
There is no need for you to worry. Upon request, I can
obtain and send to you, the official gazette approving
the loan payment. I will even send u a copy of my
Identification card and my international passport for
your records.

We do sincerely hope to work this out with you. As
regards what’s in it for you, we propose a sharing
ratio of 70:30. 70% for us and 30% for you. If you
have any problems with this, please note that we are
open to negotiations so long as they are reasonable.

Do accept heart felt good wishes as I look forward to
your response. Until I hear from you, I am, with kind
regards,


Kojo Appiah


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