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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: Bart Johnson <batjohn8@yahoo.com.sg>
Reply-To: bat71johnson@live.com
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 00:31:55 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Regards:


Hello,

Compliments of the day. Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and may offend your personality for contacting you without your prior consent and writing through this unofficial channel. I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of $ 4,550.000.00 Million United States dollars only.

This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as profit during the 2005 financial year. I have already submitted annual report for that year to my head office here in Accra as I have watched with keen interest as they will never know of this excess. I have since placed this amount of $4,550.000.00 million U.S dollars on an Escrow Coded account without a beneficiary (anonymous) to avoid trace. As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money due to civil service code which forbids civil servants from owing or operating foreign currency account coupled with the fact that the fund is huge, thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account on my behalf.

In a brief introduction my name is Mr. Bart Johnson, working as a regional manager of a financial institution here in Ghana, I am a Ghanaian married with two kids. Could you be kind enough to render your services in this regard, i intend to part 30% of the total fund to you as commission. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this, it will be a bank to bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund so that the fund can be transferred to your account.

If you accept this offer, Further Information will be given to you when you reply back. I wait for your response.

Truly yours

Mr. Bart Johnson.
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