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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: "Mr. Lamtey Tetteh" <lamtetteh06@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:46:14 +0000
Subject: Reply asap.

From: The Manager,
International Commercial Bank Ghana
First Light Branch
Accra, Ghana.

Greetings,

I got your contact during my search for a reliable,
trust worthy and honest person to introduce this
transfer project with. My name is Mr. Lamtey Tetteh. I
am the manager of the International Commercial Bank
Ghana, First Light Branch Accra. I am a Ghanaian
married with three lovely kids.

I am writing to solicit your assistance in the noble
transfer of US$5,500,000:00. This fund is the excess
of what my branch in which I am the manager made as
profit during the last year. I have already submitted
an approved End of the last Year report for the year
2006 to my Head Office here in Accra and they will
never know of this Excess. I have since then, placed
this amount of US$5,500,000:00 (Five Million Five
hundred Thousand United States Dollars) on a SUSPENSE
ACCOUNT without a beneficiary.

As an officer 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 30% of this fund to you
while 70% shall be for me. I do need to stress that
there are practically no risk involved in this. It is
going to be a bank-to-bank transfer to your nominated
bank account anywhere you feel safer. All I need from
you is to stand as the original depositor of this
fund.

The reason I contacted you is to represent Late Mr.
ANDREAS SCHRANNER a German great industrialist and a
resident of Munich, who unfortunately lost his life
along with his entire families in the plane crash of
CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight AF4590] which crashed on 25TH
JULY, 2000.You can read more news about the crash on
visiting this site;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I will appreciate your timely response.

With regards,
Mr. Lamtey Tetteh.
mrlamtetteh1950@yahoo.com

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