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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: EB-ACCION Savings & Loans <info@info.com>
Reply-To: accion.info@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:19:41 +0000
Subject: Loan Offer

EB-ACCION Savings & Loans Company, Ltd.
ACCION International House,
No. 46 ? 5th Norla Link North
Labone, PMB KD.61 Accra, Ghana.
Phone: +233-27-418-5884
+233-27-355-2799

Customer,

Need financing but don't know how to go about
securing a loan? Contact us for help.Financing
shouldn't be a mystery. The more you know
about our available options, the more you'll be
able to utilize them to your advantage. Our
company, EB-ACCION Savings & Loans is a company
with unlimited capital to fund all existent,
proposed project needs and desires.

EB-ACCION Savings & Loans provides a number of
financial assistance programs for small
businesses including personal mortgage loans,
home loans, car loans,company loans, start up
business Loans.

Our lending Program is designed to
provide expeditious service on loan transfers to
clients who have successfully completed their
loan applications and a thorough
understanding of our policies and procedures.


We would love to fund projects at hand and
offer personal loans as well to you, your
firm/partners and clients. A loan process can be
completed within a space of one weeks provided
terms of loan contract is agreed upon .
Look forward having words from you on that
Loan proposal in other that we
may process and fund you. Contact us for
further details on

Kindly Provide*****************

Full Names:-
Contact Number:-
Country:-
Personal Email:-
Occupation:-

Sincerely,
Mr Philip Takyi
Head Of Finance Department/Loan Officer
Application For Loan On 2% Interest Rate & Max 35 Years Duration



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