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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: "ROBERT NARTEY" <robertnartey234@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: nartyrob@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 03:54:07 +0100
Subject: WITH TRUST

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr Robert Nartey, I am the regional manager of
the Barclays
Bank of Ghana Accra in the Western Region of Ghana. I got
your
information during my search through the Internet. I am
44years 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, I only hope
we can assist each other. 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 regional manager of the Barclays 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 four million
five hundred
and fifty thousand dollars [4,550.000.00] 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 directly 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 30% of the total fund.
Note: there is 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 response inclusive of your
telephone/fax
Number for easy communication between us. I will detail you
on how we
can achieve it successfully.


SINCERLY YOURS,

Mr Robert Nartey


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