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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: MR EGIO EMMANUEL <egio_icb_3@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:24:27 +0000
Subject: READ AND LET ME KNOW YOUR THOUGHT



Manager,
International Commercial Bank
kaneshie Ghana.


Attn:sir/madam,

I am the regional manager of the
International Commercial Bank of Ghana Kaneshie ACCRA
GHANA, I got your information during my search through the
Internet.
I am 44years of age and married with 3 lovely kids. It may
interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problem, I only
hope we can assist each other. If you don't want this business offer kindly
forget it as I will not contact you again. I have packaged a financial
transaction that will benefit both of us.
As the regional manager of the
International Commercial Bank; it is my duty to send in a financial report to my
head office in the capital city Accra
at the end of each year. On the course of year 2003 end of year report, I
discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made three million five
hundred and fifty thousand dollars [3,550.000.00] which my head office are not
aware of and will never be aware of.
I have since place this fund on what we
call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.
As an officer of the bank I
can not directly connect to this money, so this informed my contacting you for
us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your bank
account
for us to SHARE.
While you will have 30% of the total fund .Note
there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I
need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made
the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to
your designated bank account.
If you accept this offer to work with me, I
will appreciate it very
much. As soon as I receive your response I will
details you on how we can achieve it successfully.

Thank you and God
bless you,
Best regards

Mr Egio Emmanuel.
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