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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: "Henshaw Kobina" <henshaw_inv1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: henshaw_kobina@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:50:53 -0400
Subject: CAN WE ?

Hello Please,
Thanks as am waiting for your urgent reply. contact me
+233-244-08-75-73(MR Henshaw) or you indicate your phone number to me
to reach you. first i am Mr Henshaw Kobina, a Ghanaian origin, a
coordinator
contract award and re-view committee (i am the head of the committee). our
main responsibilities/work is to award, re-view all government contract
projects to cooperate individuals or organizations.
The only source we can benefit from this contract project is over
invoicing the prices, apart from our monthly salary.this is to tell you
clear the source of this fund (over quatation from contract
projects).since two years ago, i was able to save and come with this amount,
two
million five hundred thousand dollars, which was deposited in one of the
bank, in account called escrow account.
Now that main reason why i contacted you is, to received this fund on my
behalf, because;
(A.) We are not allow to operate on foreign account transfer
transactions, while in service.(B.)We cannot establish foreign project while
on duty post, unless after our resignation or retirement from government
service or after
re-tirements.

So what i want you to do is, i will release the contact of the bank,
including the account in formations, for you to contact the bank
directly for the release and transfer of the money into your own bank
account.
After your reply, i write an application letter, and send it to you, to
forward it to the bank address which i will give you, very simple,
there is risk or problem in this, i assured you, so many people who was
working here as the head of this organization has done this and some
resigned, some re-tire.
I will be ready to send you my international passport and bank identity
card through email attachment for identification, as soon as i hear
from you.Note for your effort in this, you will have eight hundred thousand
dollars as your benefit as soon as you confirmed that the money is in
your account, if bank approved the application, it will take less than eight
working days to concluded this.
Note, that you will not let any bank officials here know that i am the
one given you these information, as soon as you received this money, i
will get resign.

Thanks for your understanding
Mr Henshaw Kobina,

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