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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: "emmanuel" <emm_kofi@gawab.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:09:30 GMT
Subject: Dear Sir Amarjit,

Dear Sir Amarjit, 

 

Thanks for your response to my mail by accept this offer I’m secretly sorry for your experience so far concerning your Funds which you have spend a lot of money on it. I want you to trust me on this transaction if I didn’t trust you I will not contact you.

   

I want this transaction to remain confidential between two of us. Carefully read the listed modalities I mapped out for the transaction.

 

Before we proceed with this transaction, please read this very carefully understand it and act accordingly. The funds are excess amount I made in branch as a manager last year, and I have already place these funds in our Banks Escrow Account without a beneficiary.

 

These funds will be transferred to you without delay this is how we are going to transfer the funds US$2,500, 000, 00 million Dollars and this is the following steps we have to follow to achieve our aims without mistake.

 

Please note that I cannot be directly or indirectly involved as the architect of the whole deal in this transfer because is going to take effect from my head office not from my branch office, because of the

nature of this funds.

 

The reason why I don’t want my head office to know that my hand is in this deal is that they will like to be making use of the funds without the Knowledge of the owners and sharing the Profit, with the steps I

mapped out, the transfer will not be delay in our bank.

 

The transfer is bank-to bank and should be made to your chosen foreign account from my head office in Accra. The modalities I have mapped out to actualize the transfer involves the following steps:

 

Step1: I will program your full names and address on the entire International Commercial Banks Database as the depositor and the beneficiary of the fund.

 

Step2: I shall issue a backdated deposit slip of the fund to your name.

 

Step3: I shall provide you with a draft of an application for transfer that you are going to forward to my Head office in Ghana as all International transfers are carried out from there.

 

Step4: I shall provide you with the account number of the funds with the above steps;

 

My head office will immediately carry out the transfer of the fund to your chosen bank account. If you accept to carry on with this transaction, your response would serve as a _go ahead order_ for me to carry out the above listed modalities.

 

At this medium, I will like you to re-confirmed to me your Full Contact Details, including your full names, complete address Tel/Fax Numbers, to enable me program them on the banks database as the depositor and

beneficiary of the fund before I issue a bad-dated deposit slip of the fund in your name.

 

Thanks

Mr. Emmanuel

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