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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: "International Commercial Bank Of Ghana"
<internationalcommercialbank@mynet.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:14:28 +0100 (CET)
Subject: FROM (ICBG)

From The
Desk of Mr.Daniel Ampah Fosu.
Manager Credit and Foreign Bills.
International Commercial Bank Ghana (ICBG)
Meridian House, Ring Road Central,
Private Mail Bag No. 16, Accra North,
Accra, Ghana
Mobile Phone: +233546752075
 
Dear Friend,
 
Compliments of the season. It is indeed my pleasure to write to you this letter, wish I believe will be a surprise,as we are both complete strangers.
 
I am Mr.Daniel Ampah Fosu, the manager credit and foreign bills of International Commercial Bank Ghana (ICBG). In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of US$7.5 million (Seven Million Five Hundred United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Engineer. Lukman, the President /CEO Tran field Worley Company, of my bank with account number 1194-255-28004 who died with his family in the July 2000, Air France crash. For your confirmations, please visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm Since I got information about his death, I have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
 
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one other official in this department now decided to make a deal with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go back into the Government treasury account as unclaimed BILL.

The banking laws and guidelines here stipulate that if such money remained after ten years the money will be transferred into Government treasury account as unclaimed funds. We agreed that 40% of this money would be for you as foreign partner, while the balance of 60% will be for my colleague and I, as you are the person to act and provide overseas account as the Next of Kin" to inherit the said fund. I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account.

As a matter of urgency, you are advised to furnish me with the following information Full Name, Address, Occupation and Mobile Number for easy communication.
 
Hoping for a very successful business relationship with you and kindly get back to me on personal email address:danielampah@ymail.com

Sincerely yours,
Mr. Daniel Ampah Fosu.
 +233546752075
  

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