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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: "ben moses" <drbmn21@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:02:03 +0000
Subject: Waiting to hear from you

Engr. Ben. Moses
Accra, Ghana.
+233 244 029696

Dear Sir / Madam

I am Engr. Ben. Moses, the Project Engineer of ASIP- Ghana. And ASIP for the
purposes of explanation means--- AGRICULTURAL SECTOR INVESTMENT PROJECT
(ASIP) This is a World Bank sponsored Multi-Million U.S Dollars Agricultural
project in Ghana.
Forgive my indignation, if this letter comes to you as a surprise and offend
you, because you have no prior knowledge of this. I got your contact during
my search for a reliable person to entrust this huge money transfer project
with.

As the Chief Engineer in charge of the project, I and my colleagues involved
in this project have agreed to seek your mutual partnership into a huge
money transfer project. We wish to transfer the sum of fortty five million
united state Dollars ($45M) from the project Fund into your personal or
company’s Bank account for our personal use.

This fund originate from over invoiced estimate we made for materials at the
project site This over invoiced sum was deliberately hatched out and
carefully protected with all attendant lope holes sealed off.

It was our consensus to seek your assistance to provide us with the
facilities to transfer this money out of Africa. This is born out of our
belief in the non-stable economy and spurious political nature of this
Continent-region. If we agree to work together as partners on this, then
this sum of $45M will be transferred into your Bank Account through Eco Bank
Ltd Accra-Ghana, because that is the Bank where the world Bank Grant for the
project, of which I am in charge, is deposited

Based on the law and ethics of our service to ASIP, we as civil servants are
not allowed to operate a foreign account

This is the more reason why we needed your assistance to provide an account
that can hold this funds when transferred to your country. It is however
agreed, as the person providing the account to secure the funds in your
country, you are offered 15% of the total sum as commission, 80% will be
held on trust for us, while 5% is set aside to reimburse expenses incurred
in the course of executing the project.

The project is expected to be successfully completed within 14 days if you
accord us the maximum cooperation needed from you.
We hope to retire peacefully and lead an honorable business life after
wards. There is no risk involved. Reply through this email.

Waiting to hear from you.
With regards,
Engr. Ben. Moses

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