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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: UN LEGALOFFICE GHANA Ghana <unlegal_ghana@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 07:40:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE : YR attention Amarjit Singh Remainder letter UN Legal office.


UNITED NATIONS OFFICE GHANA.

ATTENTION: Amarjit Singh


Sir/Madam,

RE: UPDATE/ REMINDER LETTER

This is from the United Nations Reconciliation committee (UNRC) Accra, Ghana. Sir, due to the petitions received by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from all over the continent in regards to the fraudulent activities going on in the West Africa sub-region with security's agent and diplomats who has been delaying people's funds, consignment and valuables in their custody and demand outrageous fees to get their consignment release to them.

However, Mr. Kofi Annan who is a Ghanaian citizen came home on the 21st May 2005 and set up this committee with sole aim of settling all these anomalies. The UNRC West Africa zone has its Annex office in Accra and I Barrister William Achimpong was duly appointed chairman to oversee the delivering of all consignments and release of all pending fund with west Africa Bankers Clearing House to the owners at their door steps and also in their various Overseas receiving Banks.

Sir, it has come to our knowledge when we went through the some files With THE WEST AFRICA BANKERS CLEARING HOUSE Head office in Accra Ghana and saw that your consignment/funds has since been awaiting for the owners claim. how ever we have mandated the INTERPOL OFFICERS ATTACHED to this committee to recover consignments which one is bearing your name including your contacts with which we are reaching you to reconfirm to us your ownership of the said consignment. You are advice to send to this office the followings;(1) Home Address..........................to enable the ECOWAS diplomat delivery.(2) Your private phone number ............................for direct communication.

Every consignment goes through scanning process before delivery and that we have done in your own case. After scanning your consignment we got to know that your consignment contained $100 denomination, As soon as we hear from you on this Regards we will not waste any time by Releasing your Delivery Code to you to enable you quote it to the Ecowas Diplomats upon their Arrival to your Country.

Any further delay will be the pleasure of the UNRC to use your fund to help the people who have been displaced in Darfur, Sudan Africa which you can see in this site www.savedarfur.org / www.civpol.org/portal/html/modules.or http://allafrica.com/stories/200602130180.html and the Tsunami's victims in Asia.

Do well to call.

Yours in service.

Barrister William Achimpong,
Operation director ( UNRC),
+233-246-294491
United Nations Office
Accra Ghana.



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