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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. Teteh Quarshie" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <customerservicecenter@neu.com.cn>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:06:39 -0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION MESSAGE FROM Mr. Teteh Quarshie

International transfer
Processing Department
Trust Towers Asylum Down
2nd Floor PMB CCCI
Cantonments, Accra Ghana
SWIFT HSBC 22

Attn:Beneficiary,

RE: SWIFT TRANSFER OF US$ 1.5 MILLION INTEREST INTO YOUR ACCOUNT,
>From Mr. Teteh Quarshie Head Of Treasury Department HSBC Bank Accra Ghana, your over -due
contract/inheritance fund was brought to our bank from Economic Community Of West Africa
States (Ecowas) Foreign Contractor Payment Panel comprising the following countries:
Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Rep. Benin, Senegal,Ivory-coast, Gambia, Mali, etc. (Ecowas),
This money was taken back to the Federal Government treasury as an unclaimed fund.For the
period of time this fund was in our bank, it generated an interest which we considered your
long suffering with WEST AFRICAN government. Your name was brought to our bank as one of the
beneficiaries whose money has not been paid.

The World Bank, international monetary fund (I.M.F) and other monetary agency resolved the
issue in London after one week meeting and decided to pay you this interest fund via Swift
Transfer into your account.

What we need from you now is any form of identification for example your international passport or your drivers license,then your telephone and fax number for easy communication
with your mailing address, your designated bank account details to ensure the immediate transfer of these funds as scheduled without any further impediments /Delay.
Please for your information you do not need any Lawyer or any other authorities before this said fund hit your private Bank Account but between our Bank, you and your Bank, we are
going to make all financial arrangement that will sponsor this transaction.

It is deemed necessary you facilitate these funds because the (BOG) auditors do come to our bank to cross-check our file and our financial updates.
As a matter of fact we do not have enough time to waste since we had wasted time in contacting our respective customers so try and comply with the necessary remittance
requirements to ensure the swift release of these funds into your account by sending you a
transfer confirmation slip to enable you notify your bank about the incoming funds.

We await your response to this email address(customerservicecenter@neu.com.cn) for more clarification.

Best Regards,

Mr. Teteh Quarshie
HEAD OF TREASURY DEPARTMENT
HSBC BANK ACCRA GHANA.

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