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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.Elias Nkasah" <nnmr.elias@consultant.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 06:09:19 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: PLEASE RESPOND URGENTLY

 

From Elias Nkasah  09 / 09 / 2010

Good Day,

I am Mr. Elias Nkasah I want to inquire from you if you can handle a transaction of $10.5m dollars.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I, as the regional manager of my Bank it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each business year. On the course of the last year 2009 business report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Ten Million, Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand united state dollars (10.850m) usd which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary.

As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your bank account and get 30% of the total funds as commission.

I will give you more details as soon as i receive your reply If you are interested, please forward me the bellow information

Your name: ......

Your country: ......

Your phone Number: .......

Your Tel/fax: .........

Your age: ......

Your occupation: .......

The scan copy of your international passport......

Thank for your anticipated co-operation

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Elias Nkasah.

  

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