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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: "Mr. John Owusu" <info@cardiologie.ro>
Reply-To: james2024@adinet.com.uy
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:26:53 +0200
Subject: From Mr. John" REPLY BACK




Dear Sir,

My name is Mr. John Owusu, 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 Regard
Mr. John Owusu
--

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Mr. John Owusu, 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,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 Regard
Mr. John Owusu

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