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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: tsitsu emelia <tsitsuemelia0107@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:41:44 -0700
Subject: Contact Intercontinental Bank


I am Mrs.Emelia Tsitsu From Foreign Remlttance Dept , Intercontinental Bank
in Ghana, Committee on debt reconciliation in cognizance with the credit
cover of CBN duly adopted by the Senate Committee on Foreign Payment as
requested for a fund movement cover in your favour. I am compelled to advice
you to contact us,Intercontinental Bank Auditors in Ghana.

Dr Henry Addo Express Payment Director (Intercontinental Bank) Auditors
Foreign Remlttance Dept CONTACT PERSON:Dr Henry Addo contact him for your
payment through this
Email:intercontinentalbankplc199@yahoo.com<Email%3Aintercontinentalbankplc199@yahoo.com>

Very urgently.In view of several efforts already made by us to contact you
for the simple reasons that My Office Desks have just received a Sworn
Affidavit to re-route your payment into a new Prudential Bank and Trust Co
(Zamora Branch)Account #: 5068-1117-8. Please, confirm to our department if
you have instructed anyone to appoint an attorney/agent on your behalf.
Please, confirm if you have authorized us through your agents to issue cash
call payment remittance to them on your behalf. Please, also confirm if you
have authorized your attorney to change your banking particulars to the
following particulars stated below:

Prudential Bank & Trust Co (Zamora Branch) Zamora Street, Pandacan,
Manilla, Philippines Bank FSD Account # 5068-1117-8 of Nabil Bahij Jahas.

Also re-confirm your Contract Number, Contract Amount, Private Telephone and
Fax number, your e-mail address,Office or home address, so that we can
cross-check it with our file records. We have decided to contact you because
we suspected that somebody is trying to divert your money through the sworn
affidavit of means, into a new different bank account. Already, their
associates have requested us to place a cash call order in their favour on
your behalf, but we discovered that your signature was forged. Therefore,
you are hereby

Advised to Contact, The Intercontinental Bank Auditors in Ghana regarding
the above stated.Please inform us and acknowledge your acceptance to the
above stated, but if not, please do not hesitate to inform us very urgently,
so that we can stop the diversion of your fund. For security reasons, to
avoid interception.

Yours sincerely.

Mrs.Emelia Tsitsu,

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