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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: "Mr. James Kwadwo" <mrjamesk001@adinet.com.uy>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:38:03 +0200
Subject: If You Can, From Mr. James" Please Reply Back!!!

Compliment,

My name is Mr. James Kwadwo, a politician and an immediate past member of
Ghana Parliamentary (MP). I am a member of my party's executive committee on
contract awards.

My aim of contacting you is to crave your indulgence to assist me in
securing some funds abroad for safe keeping which incidentally was kept to
help me finance the just concluded elections campaign last December 7th
2008, which the winner was finally decided through a runoff election held on
28th December 2008.Unfortunately for my party the National Patriotic Party
(NPP) lost the government seat to our opposition Party the National
Democratic Congress (NDC).

But with my immediate assistance, and contact, I was able to deposit some
money in a security vault with a commercial bank in Ghana pending when I
will found a trustworthy person to move out the fund from Ghana to overseas
bank account for business investment.

The need to contact you arose from the fact that the present elected
government vow to crack down on past immediate government functionaries of
(NPP) and trying to trace all the funds that was made through contract
awards and other mouth watering deals during our tenure in the office from
the year 2000 to 2008, if they succeed in tracing this fund to us, they will
seize it and thereby incapacitating my life time opportunities.

I wish to relocate this fund in a foreigner's name to avoid any trace. All I
need from you is an assurance that you can handle the amount involved
(US$19,500,000) comfortably and that I can also trust you.

Be fully rest assured that there is no risk involved since I have taken care
of every underground work relating to the perfection of this opportunity. I
want you to immediately inform me of your willingness in assisting and
co-operating with me, so that I can send you full details of this
transaction. I will also appreciate if you can maintain the confidential
nature of this letter and the whole transaction process.

Please if you are not interested in this business, let me know in time, so
that I can contact someone else.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. James Kwadwo

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