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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: Mr Martin Paprah <m_pap049@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <p_martin234@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:08:34 +0200
Subject: Please read carefully and reply


Good day,
I brought you greeting in the name of the Lord.

Please, may i ask for your patience to go through my story below and let me know if I will have your confidence to help me achieve the desired success of what I am going to disclose to you in this message?
My name is Martin Peprah, I am contacting you on behalf of my elder brother Dr. Kwame Peprah, who is being incarcerated by the ruling party of Republic of Ghana , my elder brother is politician under the platform of National Democratic Congress (NDC) executive committee. He along two other members, Alhaji Ibrahim Adam former Minister of Food and Agriculture, George Sipah Yankey, former Director of the Legal Sector, Private and Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance, were sentence to various jail terms, by the current ruling party New Patriotic Party (NPP).
My aim of contacting you is to crave your indulgence to assist me in securing some funds abroad for safe keeping on behalf of my elder brother, which he incidentally kept to finance the forth coming elections in 2008. Fortunately my elder brother were able to deposit the money (anonymously) with the security company's vault here in Accra-Ghana pending when the fund would be needed, which he told the security company authorities that it was precious item belonging to his foreign business partner in abroad for safety of the money not to be tampered until when he will be ready to ship it abroad.
The need to contact you arose from the fact that the present government is bringing down on the opposition and trying to trace all the funds that belong to it, which if they succeed in tracing this fund to my elder brother, they will seize it and thereby incapacitating his campaign abilities. Here my elder brother advised me to look for a foreigner that will be reliable and trustworthy to assist me to stand as my elder brother's foreign business partner abroad whom my elder brother made the deposit on his behalf, to claim the box of money from the security company and ship it overseas for your safe hand keeping in other to avoid any trace from the ruling party in government.

All I need from you is an assurance that you can handle the amount involved US$45,000,000.00 (FORTY-FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) comfortably and that I can also trust you with this arrangement.

My elder brother is promising 30% of the whole amount for any assistance, so please get back to me as soon as possible if you will assist me in doing this business so that i will update my elder brother at the prison and get more details to give you.

I am not going to contact anybody else until i am satisfied that you are not going to be part of this project, please reply quick on willingness to enable me give you further details, since time is in essence.
Also I want you to carefully read this websites bellow and understand more about my elder brother and his colleagues.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/public_agenda/article.php?ID=1306
http://fornessa.org/news_details.cfm?EmpID=534&departmentId=1
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=35755
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=14369
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=43577
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=105738
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=18623
http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/5311.html
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/politics/artikel.php?ID=110500

May God bless you and your family.

Mr.Martin Peprah .

N/B this correspondence should be confidential as my father demands.
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