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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: <akineze433@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:33:44 +0900 (JST)
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT/CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS


Attn:

I am Dr. Akin Eze the Financial Controller and the Contract Award Committee Chairman in the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Headquarters in
Accra ・Ghana. My colleagues have assigned me to seek for assistance of a reliable foreigner through whom we can transfer the sum of US$10,500,000.00 (Ten
Million, Five Hunderd Thousand United States Dollars) which arose from the deliberate over-inflated contract value for the maintance of Accra Refinery on behalf of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).

This contract was Awarded in 2003 to an expatriate firm with the consideration of 10% commission agreement on the total contract value. The contract has been executed and the bona-fide contractor has long been paid, we are left with this US$10,500,000,00 being our share that is remaining in the
Federal Government Account. The current favourable political /economic climate in the country now presented an opportunity for this fund to be transferred out of the country.

Our contact in the Federal Ministry of Finance have given us a go ahead advice to begin the process of the remittance, hence we set in motion the machinery for
the take-off of this transaction and further action will commence immediately we hear from you. We have agreed that the transfer of the money into your account is based on the fact that you shall be entitled to 30% of the total amount transferred, while the remaining 70% will be for us.

We decided to give you this percentage in order to motivate you and also to let you feel satisfied at the end of this transaction. The nature of your business is not particularly relevant for the success of this transaction. All we require is your willingness to co-operate and assurance that our
own share will be given to us, when this money is finally transferred into your account.

All necessary precautions have been taken to ensure a risk-free transfer on the sides of both parties and it is believed that the conclusion of this transaction will not last more than 7 working days. However, we are going to retrieve the whole documents that will relate to this transaction and
destroy them after the transfer of the money into your account to avoid any trace of the money.Since we have no knowledge of
business, our plan is to invest this money into Real Estate, Stocks and we can also invest in some other profitable business in your country based on your advice because many of our years were spent as civil servants and we may likely resign from government service to private business after this
money is transferred into your bank account.

I will oblige you with further information if so
required.e mail akineze44552000@yahoo.co.jp or akineze43@yahoo.co.uk
Dr Akin Eze




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