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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: "Peter Ansah" <pa4_4080@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: info_4080@katamail.com
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:24:32 +0000
Subject: Greetings From Ghana

>From Peter Ansah
TEL: +233 242182422

Greetings to you,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must come to you
as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and
become great friends and business partners.

My name is Peter Ansah, the present branch Manager of a bank here in Ghana.
I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with
the information I am about to reveal to you. Like I said, I have a
transaction that will benefit both of us, as your assistance is required as
a foreigner.

I use to head the Accounts department in my bank head office, but last
December I was asked to take position of a Manager of our branch in Kumasi
who passed on, so that was how I became the present Manager and discovered a
fortune. As I resumed duty, I discovered an account with total sum of
$12,500,000 million that has not been operated on for the past 4 years.
>From my investigation, I found out that this account belongs to one Late Mr.
ANDREAS SCHRANNER a German great industrialist and a resident of Munich,
who unfortunately lost his life along with his entire famillies in the plane
crash of CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight AF4590 ] which crashed on 25TH JULY,
2000. You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site, which
I got during my investigation;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.

The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my bank and
no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary. I have kept a close monitoring of the
account since then and nobody has come forward to ask about the money as
next of kin to the late Mr. Andreas Schranner, meaning that no one is aware
of the account. I cannot directly take out this money without the help of a
foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance to claim the
funds and share it with me. As the Manager of my bank branch, I have the
power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up
as the next of kin to the account, with the correct information concerning
the account, which I shall give you.

I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to the
account, so that my bank head quarters will release the funds to you. There
is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.

If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share
the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. Contact me
as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can work together, so we
can go over the details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.
Please, treat with utmost confidentiality.
I wait your urgent response. My phone number is +233 242182422 .

Regards,

Peter Ansah.

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