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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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Fraud email example:

From: Frank Kofi <frankkofi_a@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:55:13 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Urgent Response Needed


Dear Sir,

I am Mr. Frank Kofi the general auditor International Commercial Bank Ghana Limited. I will go straight to the point of my mail to you and I do hope you will view it as a serious and an opportunity for us both. There is this floating fund, which is to the tune of Fifteen Million American Dollars (15,000,000.00 USD), which has been floating in an account here since 2000 after the death of the true owner of the funds. Late Mr. Morris Thompson, an American who was a private businessman.

He unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed on January 31st 2000,including his wife and only daughter. You
can read more about the crash on visiting these sites below.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list

I just came across his file again when I was auditing all the credit Account in International Commercial Bank Ghana limited and I found out that not for once
has anybody ever come on behalf of the Late Mr. Morris Thompson as his next of kin to claim the funds. Hence I have been monitoring this account since I discovered this information.

In this case I have concluded to contact you, if you will be willing to execute this transaction with me, then I will instruct you on how to claim or stand as the next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson, so that the funds could be reverted to your overseas A/C, that is if only you will co-operate with me and not to betray me at the end.

As soon as I confirm your interest and co-operation I will give you the guidelines on how you can transact with the bank for the approval of the funds to your account. As soon as everything is been put into place
for the transfer I will apply for an annual leave to obtain a visa to travel to your country for my share of the funds.

The sharing ratio of the funds will be 50% for me, 40% for you and the remaining 10% will be for expenses we will incurred during the transaction.
I thank you for your understanding and I look forward to a favorable response.

Best Regards,
Mr. Frank Kofi



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