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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. James Williams" <dr.james_williams@jjmacp.com>
Reply-To: dr.james_6williams@yahoo.in
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 06:12:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Good Day,

Good Day,

First and foremost I would like to apologize for infringing on your
privacy by sending you an unsolicited email,I would have given you a call,
but rather I decided to contact you via an email to get us acquainted
since it is a safer way of private communication.If you must know, I came
about your contact information through a random search with my client's
name on the Inter net while trying to locate any link to him.
I am Dr.James Williams a personal account adviser/officer to a great late
industrialist who has an account in one of the top banks here in Ghana. It
has been nine years now since he died in the year 2000 without a written
or an oral will to the best of my knowledge from information I gathered
via his attorney here in Ghana and since then nobody has operated on his
account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money
out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing since the bank has been sold
on , 19 January 2009 to another bank and the management of the bank are
now ready to release the fund to any foreigner who has the correct
information of the account before fully handing over the management to the
new bank.
The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about
this account OR anything concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary. My investigation through the National immigration department
proved to me as well that he was single as at the point of his entry into
Ghana.As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for
investment.Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the
management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct
information to this account which I will give you immediately, if you are
interested to do this business with me.Firstly,before I will disclose the
said amount to you, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly
confidential,I want to sure and have confidence of your ability and
reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude which I
solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your
safe account for onward investment.
You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new bank
account immediately to receive this fund, even an empty bank account will
serve to receive this fund,as long as you are willing to remain honest to
me till the end of this important business transaction, trusting in you
and believing that you will never let me down either now or in future. I
am sure that everything will work out as the world bank send their
delegate to us which we had a meeting in the bank of Ghana on our
independence day 6 of march 2010 and the G20 summit meeting that was heard
in London to stop the global financial crisis have brought a new banking
system to Africa, in a way that no body will know and i will get you all
the legal document in your name, more to it i was able to speak with the
representative from the world bank at length so i strongly believe that
everything will work out.
As soon as I hear from you, and upon your strong assurance that you will
not let me down once the fund goes into your account I will then start to
process the transfer of the fund to your account without further delay.
If interested contact me through my private mail

dr.james_112williams@yahoo.com for further details.

Yours Faithfully,
Dr.James Williams.

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