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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: Peter Kumitse <peter.kumitse@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: peter.kumitse@gmx.com
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:56:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Partnership,


May 28th, 2010.

My Friend,

I hope this message reaches you in good health.

I feel quite safe dealing with you having gone through your profile on the internet.

By way of introduction, I am Mr. Peter Kumitse, the Manager of Sahel-Sahara BSIC Bank (GH) Limited, North Industrial Area Branch, Accra-Ghana.

I request your assistance to stand as the beneficiary to a deceased client to retrieve and transfer the sum of Hundred Million United States Dollars in a mutual benefit.

As you may know, the funds in question were deposited with my branch by late Mr. Bradford Woods, a Citizen of America who spent most of his adult life in Africa. He was by all standards a successful businessman and had financial dealings with many top politicians in the West African Sub-Region, but due to some illegal financial dealings which came into the open, he was accused of money laundering and was detained by the law enforcement agency that investigates financial crimes here in the West African Sub-Region.

During the course of the investigation, the law enforcement agency discovered some huge amount of funds in his numerous bank accounts and confiscated all funds they discovered including his houses and all of his assets; this resulted to his death because of the shock. His wife, Mrs. Christine Woods, who was his legal beneficiary, died of heart attack three months after his death, thereby leaving no one behind to claim the siad funds which fortunately were not discovered by the agency because the deposit was made confidential.

I have since then placed these funds on a suspense account without any beneficiary but before I present you to my bank board as the beneficiary of these funds, here are my plans:

I shall register a Gold Trading Company in your name here in Ghana and back date the company documents with my contact at the Registrar General’s Office after which I shall open an account in the company's name which also will be the same name as your account name in your country and then move the funds to the company's account, this will make it look like you have been dealing in gold business for a while. Once this is done, we would not have any problems in claiming and transferring the funds to your foreign account.

Having completed the above process, I shall then present you to my bank board as the beneficiary to these funds after which the necessary funds transfer approval will be issued in your favor and the funds will be successfully transferred to any of your nominated foreign account with the understanding that we share the funds on a ration of 50% apiece.

You have no reason to fear of any hitch, I have thought carefully about this transaction and I can confidently say that there is no risk or undue hitches regarding actualization of this transaction, but you must handle this information wisely by keeping it only to yourself until the funds are successfully transferred to any of your nominated account.

Having read and understood this process and you agree to work with me; quickly get back to me in complete confidence for details of proceeding.

Please let me have your opinion as soon as possible.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Peter Kumitse,
Branch Manager,
BSIC Bank (GH) Ltd.
No. 65 Otublohum Street,
North Industrial Area Branch,
Accra - Ghana, West Africa.
Bank Sort Codes: BSAHGHAC
Telephone:   +233-26-846-7002
Fax:             +233-26-846-7004
Website: http://www.bsic.com.gh/




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