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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: "Perry Steven" <perrysteven36@biz.by>
Reply-To: mr_perry_steven@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:21:13 +0100
Subject: Classified Information


FROM THE DESK OF
MR. PERRY STEVEN
REGIONAL MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
KUMASI BRANCH GHANA.

HELLO DEAR,

My name is Perry Steven, I am the regional manager of the International
Commercial Bank kumasi branch Ghana. I got your information during my search
through the Internet. I am 42years 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,but
i dont know how you will feel about this because you might feel that its
scam yes there are many scammers. but am telling you that this is real and
you are not going to regret after doing this transaction with me. I only
hope we can assist each other.But 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-Ghana 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 Six
Million Eight hundred and fifty thousand dollar [6,850.000.00] 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 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 .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.


Best Regards
Mr. Perry Steven

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