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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: El Onunwa <elonunwa3@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kofnenee@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:55:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Dear Freind


From: Mr Elonunwa Onunwa
Email:elonunwa3@yahoo.com
Dear Freind

My name is Mr Elonunwa Onunwa , I am the regional manager of Standard
Chartered bank of Ghana Ltd Tema branch in the greater Accra region of
Ghana. I got your information on a recent bank conference with other
West African countries held in Lome the capital city of Togo in West Africa. I write you this proposal in good faith; I am 50 years old married
with four children. I am a devoted Christian and a man of peace.
I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and me,
as the regional manager of the Standard Chartered bank it is my duty to
send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra
at the end of each business year.
On the course of 2005 business report, I discovered that my branch in
which I am the manager made three million seven hundred and fifty
thousand united state dollars ($3,750,000.00) which my head office are not
aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this funds on what we
call escrow call account with no beneficiary. As an officer of this
bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting
you is to assist me receive
this money in your bank account and get 30% of the total funds as
commission.

There are practically no risks involved, it will be a bank-to-bank
transfer and all I need from you is to stand and claim as the original
depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my
head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much. You get
back to me on this my email address Mr Elonunwa Onunwa
elonunwa3@yahoo.com so that we can go over the details.
Thank you in advance and May God bless you and your family.
Yours truly
Mr Elonunwa Onunwa

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