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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: Musa Ahmed <muahmed02@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:02:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Your urgent reply is needed


Hello Friend,

=A0

I am MUSA AHMED the director in charge of
Auditing and Accounting Department of INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
LIMITED ACCARA GHANA, and also the account officer of (MR.ROBERT RICE
FROM OHIO,UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)who died on 31st of October,2000 in
a plane crash. For more informations about the crash you can visit this
sites:

=A0

http://www.zenpageweavers.com/malikahti/journal/flight.htm

and=A0 http://www.cnn.com/US/9910/31/egyptair.families.02/

=A0

Before
the death of the deceased, he had a fixed deposit account that worth
the sum of U.S$13.7M (THIRTEEN MILLON SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND US
DOLLARS).with the above mentioned Bank and no other person outside the
bank knows about this account or any thing concerning it, and since we
got information about his death we have been expecting his next of kin
to come over and claim his fund because we cannot

release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin, relation or business partner
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and laws, but the
account has no other beneficiary because my investigation proved that
his supposed next of kin died along with him in the crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim.

=A0

It is therefore upon this
discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the fund to you as the next of kin,relation or business partner
to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and i don't want this fund to go into the bank treasury
as unclaimed bill.The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if
such fund remained unclaimed after (Ten Years)it will be transfered
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund,and i don't want that to
happen that was why i offered this to you.I agree that 40% of the fund
will be for you as a compensation for the provision of a foriegn
account and your financial assistance,and 60% would be for me as the
originator of the transaction.

=A0

As
soon as you confirmed the total fund in your account,I will visit your
country for disbursement of the fund according to the percentage
indicated above and for investment too. Also, I will not fail to bring
to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and that you should
not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been
made for the transfer.

So,
if you are willing ,capable and ready to assist me on this transaction
whole heartedly, kindly furnish me with the following details as thus:

=A0

1.Your full names & address

4.Your Direct Telephone and fax numbers.

=A0

Therefore
to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,I will
prepared an Application Of Claim Upon receipt of those required
information,and submitted it to the INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
LIMITED ACCARA GHANA on your behalf with my position as an Auditor
Manager and Account Officer of Mr.Robert Rice.

=A0

Your urgent reply is needed for the take off of this transaction.

Thanks and be blessed.

=A0

Your's Sincerely,=A0=A0=20

MUSA AHMED=0A=0A=0A

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