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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: daney robert <daney.allen15@msn.com>
Reply-To: <daneyrobert5@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:52:41 +0000
Subject: Very Urgent From (Mr.Dan Robert




Very Urgent From (Mr.Dan Robert
No. 5 The New Heaven,Ave
Airport Road Accra Ghana.
Good Day,
Dear Sir/Madam.

RE-TRANSFER OF $26,654,000.00 {Twenty Sixty Million Six Hundred and Fifty Four Thousand United States OF America Dollars}
I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship.Well My Name is ( Mr.Dan Robert ) I am the personal account officer to a
deceased customer of the bank ( LATE MR GREEN BILTON ) before his death he operates a Domiciliary account in one of the prime banks here in Accra,Ghana.
The account was opened in 2002 and he died in 2005 without a written or oral WILL and since his death in 2005 nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating, and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing, and Government of Ghana will confiscate the funds for their personal use which I personally don't want such incident to happen being that this is a great opportunity in my life. My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer the fund {$26,654,000.00} from the prime Bank here in Accra Ghana to an oversea account of your choice. First, I must solicit
your strictest confidence in this transaction.

This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude.
I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment. You can either provide us with an existing account information even if it is an empty provided you are the only signatory to the account.

I am assuring you that the transaction is 100% free of risk and trouble as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business,trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down once the fund is transfer to the account which you are going to provide because the business is my life. The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the
manager of his company. My investigation through the National immigration department here in Accra Ghana proved to me as well that he was single as at the time of his entry into Ghana.

As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment. Your
assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I will give to you immediately, We will start the first transfer with (Ten Million Usdollars {$10,000,000.00}. Upon successful transfer of the first (Ten Million Usdollars {$10,000,000.00} without any
disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance
of Sixteen Million Six Hundred and Fifty Four Thousand United States OF America Dollars} {$16, 654,000.00} Million to the same account which you will provide. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here due to law of inheritance in Accra Ghana.

If you are interested, please forward the following information as below:
{1} Your full name and address:......
{2} Bank Name:............ ..........
{3} Bank Address.....................
{4} Account No:......................
{5} Swift Code.......................
{6} Account Holder's Name: ..........
{7} Your telephone Numbers...........
{8} Your Occupation..................
{9} Your Valid Identity or Passport copy ...................

Upon receipt of the above details, payment will be activated by feeding of your data into
the bank payment system, followed by a signal that will be sent to the paying bank to remit the fund into your nominated bank account within 7 official bank working days of receipt of the above information at the conculsion of the transaction you will be giving 40% of the total money 55% will be for me and the bank manager while 5% will be set aside for
settlement of any expences that may arise at the cost of this transaction.

Best Regards,
Mr.Dan Robert


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