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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: "Gifty.J.Abavana" <gifty_gh@gawab.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:16:28 GMT
Subject: Re: My Dear Amarjit singh



My Dear Amarjit singh,

I got your mail and i quite understand all what you said, at
this point i have really develpoed a big trust in you but since
you can`t handle this transaction finacally i will still intrust
you with all my fund and properties and the up-keep of my two
children,

All I will like you to do is to help me look for some one who
will be able to finance this transaction and at the end open up
an account here on his or her name were the fund will be
lodged.since you are not capable of handling such money and
these kind of project you can let someone in your family or
somebody who is matured enough and financally capable of
securing this transaction.

My husband had in mind to send this properties out of the
country before his death due to the fact that government
officials should not hold foreign accounts.
Now I have contacted you to stand as his foreign partner
overseas to claim all the money and the gold. The only way this
can work is to change all the documents of the properties to
your name by swearing an affidavit of charge of ownership in
your favour at the High Court of Justice here in Ghana, by so
doing all the related document will be automatically charged to
your name legally.

Have you heard from the lawyer? I hope you both are working in
good hands to see that we can come to a great conclusion in this
project, I trust you in the hands of the lawyer, he is good and
will handle everything with you and also he will guide you when
you come down here to meet me, he is the person that will take
you to the bank to see the bank people and the money in the Bank
also with the security company were the Gold is and also coming
to see me in the hospital.

I am giving you my words that as soon as the fund is being
transfered you will get a fair % and the owner of the account
who is the financee also,be it known to you that i will like to
make you the TRUSTEE to this whole project and in your name we
will run the whole transfer think about that.

(a) Paul Abavana is 16 years Will be 12 on July 15 /2006

(b) Kofi Abavana is 13 years, will be 8 on May 2/ 2006

Get me a financee who will help come down to Accra Ghana to open
the account here in my country on his name so that we can
negoiate with the person ok.I have really thought about the
whole thing and i think these is the best way we can achieve our
objective and at the end i think we will have much cause to be
happy i hope you understand what i mean. for more information
you can email the lawyer
( ofori@gawab.com ) telephone number 00233-2434-26124

I will be waiting for your response to my mail, take care of
your self and think about this , if you have any question to ask
me please feel free to do that.
send me the number of the trustee when you get one and your
direct line were i can reach you at all time. bye for now.
God Bless,

Ms Gifty.
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