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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: "evans nkrumah" <evans_nku@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:18:15 +0000
Subject: Busimess Proposal.



I am Dr.Evans Nkrumah, Director of Project Implementation,Department of
Mines and Minerals Ghana,West Africa. First and foremost, I apologized using
this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude.I have
decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the
deal described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will
keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this transaction.
Within the Department of Mines and Minerals where I work as a Director of
Project Implementation and with the co-operation of other officials, we have
in our possession as overdue payment bills totalling Fifteen Million, Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$15,500,000.00) which we want to
transfer abroad with the assistance and co-operation of a foreign
company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable
foreign non-company account to receive such funds. More so, we are
handicapped in the circumstances, as the Ghana Civil Service Code of Conduct
does not allow us to operate offshore account hence your importance in the
whole transaction.
This amount (US$15.5m) represents the balance of the total contract value
executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we
the officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract cost
have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the tune
of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approvals to remit by
Telegraphic Transfer (T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide by
filing in an application through the Ministry of Justice here in Ghana for
the transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor to you.
I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be
willing to assist us in the transaction, your share of the sum will be 20%
of the US$15.5 million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous
expenses and the remaining 5% will be for charity Organisation. The business
itself is 100% safe, on your part provided you treat it with utmost secrecy
and confidentiality. Also, your area of specialization is not a hindrance to
the successful execution of this transaction. I have reposed my confidence
in you and hope that you will not disappoint me. Endeavour to contact me
immediately through my confidential email
address:nkrumah_evans2@yahoo.co.uk, whether or not you are interested in
this deal.
I want to assure you that myself and my partners are in a position to make
the payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong
assurance and guarantee that our share will be secured and please remember
to treat this matter as very confidential matter, because we will not
comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active Government
Service, it is pertinent to inform you that time is of the essence in this
transaction.

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
DR.EVANS NKRUMAH.


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