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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: philipkarim44@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:28:56 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY


Dear
My name is KARIM PHILIP I am the Regional manager of
Barclays Bank of Ghana Limited, Takoradi branch in the
Western region of Ghana. I am a man of peace, married
with two lovely kids. I never want problems in my
life, it was just because of my present financial
situation that I have carefully planned to utilize
this opportunity that came my way, and I only hope you
can assist me not to persecute me. If you don't want
this proposal, can you kindly forget that I ever
contacted you. I will be glad you did for the sake of
my job.
I have packaged a financial transaction that will
benefit you and I, as the Regional manager of the
Barclays 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 business year. In the course of
last year 2007, business report, I discovered that my
branch in which I am the manager, made five million,six
hundred US dollars (US$5,600,000) which my head office
is not aware of and will never be aware of. I have
placed this funds on what we call escrow call account
with any beneficiary.
As an officer of this bank, I cannot be directly
connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you
is to assist me receive this money in your bank
account and get 30% of the total funds as commission.
There are practically no risk involved, it will be a
bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand
claim as the original depositor of this funds, who
made the deposit with my branch so that my head office
can order the transfer to your designated bank
account. If you accept to work with me, I will
appreciate it very much.my email is as above. email me
if you think we can work together so that we can go
over the details. Thank you in advance and may God
bless you and your family.I will provide you with all
the necessary documents on how to go about this
transaction.YOU CAN GET BACK TO ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL ID AS barclays_bank200@yahoo.co.nz
Regards,
KARIM PHILIP
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