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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: "dan dankwah" <dan.dankwah5@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:49:53 +0000
Subject: very urgent

From Mr Daniel Dankwah
Email:mrdanieldankwah1@myway.com

Dear Friend

My name is Daniel Dankwah, I am the regional manager of Standard Chartered
bank of Ghana Ltd Obuasi branch in the eastern region of Ghana. I got your
contact details on a last year december 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 53 years old married with three
children. I am a responsible man of peace and I do always stand on the
truth.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I, 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 2006 business report, I discovered that my branch in which
I am the manager made four million three hundred and fifty thousand united
state dollars ($4,350,000.00) which my head office are not aware of and will
never be aware of . I have deposited this funds on what we call escrow call
account with no beneficiary.

And as an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this fund,
so my purpose of contacting you is to help me receive this fund 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 if you contact
me immediately on my Email Address;mrdanieldankwah1@myway.com so that we can
go over the details.

Thank you and May God bless you and your family.

Best Regards
Mr Daniel Dankwah

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