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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: "Dr. Armbrose Dery" <dery@24ip.blulab.eu>
Reply-To: <deryarmbrose@yahoo.es>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:00:21 -0000
Subject: Goods news (Your payment released)

House of Parliaments Information

Office
Parliament House, Accra-Ghana .


Attn: Beneficiary,

We the entire members of the

House of the Parliament , on

behalf of the
Government of Ghana , under the

auspices of the new President of

Ghana
held a meeting this week

concerning payment, both foreign

and local
contractors and some inheritance

funds of lost and dead investors

in Ghana
between 1960 to 2009 which were

not released to the right

benefactors and
also long dated contract payment

sum of 1978/1981.

Mr. John Atta Mills the

Honorable President of Ghana and

the Speaker of
Parliament Mrs. Joyce Bamford-

Addo has just informed this

office the
House of Parliament of Ghana

that All the listed contractors

and
Inheritance funds benefactors

which their CONTRACT PAYMENT SUM

AND
INHERITANCE FUNDS were not paid

to should be released to them

with effect
so that the Global financial

crisis rocking the world today

will not
affect the goverment of Ghana

On going through files yesterday,

we discovered that your file was

dumped
untreated, so at this juncture,

we apologize for the delay of

your payment
and
please stop communicating with

any office now and attention to

the
appointed office below for you to

receive your payment accordingly.

We discovered that your payment

listed to us Five million two

hundred
thousand dollars (US5.2M)

approximately Three million five

hundred
thousand Great
Britain Pounds(GBP3.5M), you are

advised to respond with effect so

that we
will process your payment to be

made in any form you wish to

receive your
funds
either by bank draft of direct

wire transfer or inform our

financial
institution where the funds will

be package for delivery at your

doorstep
.

Kindly respond to this office so

that your payment will be process

and
release under 5 days of your

receiving this email for proper

verification
of your
full detailed information for

final processing of the release

of your fund.

Now your new Payment Reference

No.-35460021, Allocation No:

674632
Password No : 339331 , Pin Code

No: 55674 and your Certificate of

Merit
Payment No : 103,
Released Code No: 0763; Immediate

Telex confirmation No: -1114433 ;

Secret
Code No: XXTN013, Having received

these vital payment number,

therefore
You are
qualified now to receive and

confirm Your payment with the

United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern

Ireland immediately within 5

days.
You are directed to reconfirm

your full detailed information as

stated
below :

1) FULL NAME:
2) HOME ADDRESS:
3) OFFICE ADDRESS:
4) PROFESSION,MARITAL STATUS,AGE:
5) HOME PHONE NUMBER/WORK PHONE

NUMBER and CELL PHONE NUMBER :
As well as time to call you on

the phone.

NOTE: We have mounted our

security network to monitor every

in-coming
call, if we still find out that

you are still dealing with all

those
fraudsters that
have been frustrating you, we

shall stop and cancel your

payment
immediately .
Respectively ,

Dr. Ambrose Bruce Dery
Deputy Minority Leader
House of Parliament , Ghana.
drbhel@gmail.com




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