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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 Danladi Ibrahim <dan_ibrahim001@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:37:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Can i trust you with this transaction


From Mr Danladi Ibrahim,
(Branch Manager)
SG-SSB BANK TAKURADI
ACCAR GHANA.

Atten;Pls Dear


I know this my letter will come to you so surprise, Before I continue, I wish to introduce my self to you.I am Mr Danladi Ibrahim, A ghanain of 56years old, married with a wife and four children, Two boys and two girls.
At present, I am the branch manager of SG-SSB Bank,Takuradi branch Ghana. I write to solicit your permission ,If you will sincerely and honoestly accummodate the sum of $3,520,000 (three million, five Hundred and twenty thousand) united states dollars only.

This fund came as a result of over marginal profit that was left in our ledger book for the year 2004/2005 third quater accounting period. As such , this amount has been floating in the ledger book without anybody claiming it, as a matter of fact, since I am the manager of this branch(Takuradi) I seek you kindly forward to me your telephone and your full particulars,(Address) To enable me creat an account file in your favour to transfer this fund to your overseas account for disbursement as follows;

You we be entitle for 25% for your assistant, 10% will be maped out for expense while 65% will be kept in your account pending the arrival of my wife in your country for the treatment of her breast cancer,i will not fail to intimate you that due to our poor salary here, i could not be able to carryout her breast cancer oparetions which cost a lot of money and with this, if you could assist and this workout as plan,she will then carryout the oparetion in order to save her life for me, for this reason, i have taking this action.

Please be informed that this transaction is risk free and as long as i am going to monitor all paper works from table to table untill the transfer is effected into your overseas account. i will also send to you my PASSPORT and my I D CARD for you to know who you are dealing with.

kindly acknowledge this my proposal, if accepted or not.

I am waiting for your favourable reply.

Yours faithfully
Mr Danladi Ibrahim,
(Branch Manager)
SG-SSB BANK TAKURADI
ACCAR GHANA.
Alternative Email: danladiibrahim4all@excite.com



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