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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_pap01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <p_martin234@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:52:19 +0200
Subject: Please read carefully and reply !!


Good day to you. 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?

I got your email information from one of my good friends who work with Ghana 's Chamber of Commerce and industry on foreign business relations here in Accra-Ghana, though I did not disclose the deal to him. When he gave me your email address, I did not ask him his source because, I trust his judgment, having known him for a very long time. So my thinking is that if my friend can give me your email address contact when he knows that I am looking for a trustworthy foreigner, then you must be trustworthy and honest. Please permit me to introduce my self to you; my name is Martin Peprah, a political activist. I am a member of National Democratic Party's (NDC) executive committee, and my elder brother is former minister of finance Dr. Kwame Peprah My elder brother Dr. Kwame Peprah, Ibrahim Adam former Minister of Food and Agriculture, and the former Director of the Legal Sector, Private and Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance, George Sipah Yankey, were sentence various prison 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 box 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 thirty five million United States dollars only (US$35,000,000) comfortably and that I can also trust you with this arrangement. My elder brother is promising 25% 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. Be rest assured that there is no risk involved since I have taken care of everything. I want you to inform me of your willingness in assisting and co-operating with us, so that I can send you full details of this transaction and let us make arrangement for a meeting and discuss at length on how to transfer this funds. So it will would be appreciated if you can maintain the confidential nature of this massage and the whole transaction. Please I want you to carefully read this website, and understand more about my elder brother and his colleagues through this websites below. 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.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Martin Peprah.
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