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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: "david appiah" <david_appiah042@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 17:40:04 +0000
Subject: I appreiciate your response and pls call me.

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.David Appiah;a bank manager with International Commercial Bank here
in Ghana West Africa.I contacted you becuase i believed you can be of
assistance to me.I write you this letter in good faith after getting your
contact information through a personal search.I have a transaction of Six
Million, Seven hundred and Fifty Thousand US dollars ($6,750,000.00) and I
realized this fund from my branch as excess profit when i was in service as
a branch manager.

I deposited this fund in an Escrow call account were nobody will have access
to it;Even my bank does not have access to this account because it cannot be
used for any transaction;I did not declare this fund to the bank before my
retirement. I am contacting you, to stand as the beneficiary of this fund
because only a foreigner can stand as the beneficiary.Can I trust you to
hold this money for me until I come to your country after the transfer for
my share?

All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund and
provide an account where this money will be transferred into.There are
practically no risks involved because it will be a bank to bank transfer
which will not take us more than three banking working days.

I will give you 40% of the money as gratification,If you accept my offer;You
can contact me only on my private phone number 00233243525624.

I will appreciate your timely response as soon as you receive this mail.

With regards,
Mr.David Appiah.

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