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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: philip mensah <philipmensah22@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 01:28:45 -0800 (PST)
Subject: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list


Mr.Phillip Mensah Please Reply to : Email: firstnamephilipmensah@yahoo.com
Compliments, with genuine, sincere Intentions I seek to make contact
with you and acquaint myself with you for mutual benefit towards
overcoming a Dilemma regarding certain funds left behind in an Investment
Account by a Deceased client of a Bank here in Accra Ghana.
My name is Mr.Phillip Mensah, an External Auditor attached to a Bank
here in SAccra Ghana.

I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our bank with account
number 908-14-255-114 whose name is Cho, Kwiyoung(Mr.), an American
citizen who died in a plane crash [Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole
passengers on board on August 6,1997.And for your perusal you can view
this website
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list
Since the demise of this customer, I personally have watched with keen
interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one
has come to claim his funds of US$15.5M (Fifteen Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) which has been with our branch for a very
long time.On this note, I decided to obtain a Letter of Probate
Mandamus from the Johannesburg High Court to seek for whom his name shall
be used as the Next of Kin as no one has come up as his next of kin.
And the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than
Twelve years, because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury
as unclaimed fund after this period.
In view of this I got your contact through an Online Search when i was
making a
research on a foreigner I will use in this great opportunity. I will
inform you of your percentage after I receive a Favorable and positive
feedback from you.
Please contact me by Email only for now with the following details;

[1] Your Names ,[2] Telephone and Fax numbers, ,[3] Your Physical
Address,[4] Your Age
[5] Your Occupation

I need the Information in order to obtain the very important Affidavits
and Application Forms and Letter which I will send to you and inform
you how to fill it in and forward to the Committee.I will get in touch
with you afterwards, this proposal is for Mutual Financial Benefit and
not to mis-lead you.

Thank you and Best Regards,
Mr.Phillip Mensah,
Tel: 00233 248 249 734




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