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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: nna johnson <gh_c_bank@yahoo.ca>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:18:13 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: HOW ARE YOU TODAY


>From Mr JOHNSON NANA
Internatioal Commercial Bank,
Ghana West Africa.

Dear Friend.

I got your contact during my search on the Internet,search for a honest person .My name is Mr. JOHNSON NANA.The regional manager of Internatioal Commercial Bank,Teshie Nungua Branch Ghana. I am a Ghanaian by birth,46years of age and married with three children.Although i am not comfortable to send this proposal to you because of increase in SCAM and FRAUD especially in Africa , but i am too sure that this is not Scam because you have access to confirm, provided you did
not let my Bank know the source of your information.I
have packaged a financial transaction that will
benefit both of us.

As the regional manager of the bank, it is my duty
to send financial reports to my head office in the
capital city of Accra Ghana. On the course of the last
year 2004 end of the year's report, i discovered that
my branch in which i am the manager ,made twenty-four
million us dollars. (24,000,000.00) of which my head
office is not aware and will never be aware of it.

I have since then PLACED this fund in an ESCROW CALL
ACCOUNT without a beneficiary. As the regional manager
of the bank , I cannot be directly connected to this
Money thus, i am impelled to request for your
assistance to receive this money into your bank
account. i intend to part 25% of this fund to you
while 75% shall be for me and two officers who will
assist me move the fund to your account. I do need to
assure you that there are no risk involved in this
Business. It’s going to be a Bank-to-Bank transfer.

All i need From you is to stand as the original
depositor of this fund. If you accept this offer, i
will appreciate your timely response and then we shall
discuss on how you will keep our share .

With regards,
JOHNSON NANA.

NB: Your early reply is highly welcomed and attach
your profiles,such as your name and adress,and also
your contact telephone number for easy means of
communication.

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