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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: "samuel kofi" <samuelkofi009@gmail.com>
Reply-To: samuel_kofi1960@live.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:01:45 +0800
Subject: Dear Friend,


Dear Friend,

My name is Mr Samuel Kofi , I am the regional manager of the International
Commercial Bank Tema Accra Ghana I got your information during my search
through the Internet. I am 48years of age and married with 3lovely 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 the last year 2007 end of year report, I
discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Three million five
hundred thousand dollars [US$3,500.000.00] which my head office are not
aware of and will never be aware of. I
have since place e this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any
beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected 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 40% of the total fund. I will appreciate it very much.As soon
as I receive your response I will details you on how we can achieve it
successfully.

Best regards,
Mr Samuel Kofi
+233287293362

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