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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. Danny Price" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <telexofficer1990@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 02:38:30 +0100
Subject: VERY URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED?

The A.D.B Head Office Complex,
Central Business District Accra Ghana.


Attn: Please,

I am Mr. Danny Price, the senior Telex officer, department of Foreign Operation on International Payment matters (A.D.B).

From the 1st to 9th April,2010,an audit was conducted by the Economic of west African states Auditors for 10 working days, to all commercial banks in Africa, this instruction was ordered by the (Ecowas) President to cross-check how many contractors/Beneficiaries that were unable to receive their due payments since from 5 years ago and after the auditing, a list was presented to the( Ecowas) authority ,then yesterday being 2nd of June. 2010, the President with the Executive members of all apex and commercial bank in Africa, urged the A.D.B Bank (Telex Department) to start handling all foreign payments.

Now, your file was among the list to be paid by A.D.B bank, but I dictated some foul plays in the past, our Board of Directors want to use their position to force me to accept, divert your fund to another bank account belonging to MR. DR ED EDMUND of United States of America .

View the bank account information below:

WELLS FARGO BANK N.A.
303 EAST RAIL ROAD STREET,
CLE ELUM, WA 98943.
R/t #:125008547
A/c # :5255764796:
Account Owner: DR ED EDMUND, M.D.

I bluntly refused because I fear God and hate corruption; I cannot offend my God and the Ecowas Authority who handed this fund on my care, just because of material things.

I have decided to contact you base on this regard, instead they will divert your fund elsewhere, it’s better I secretly transfer your fund into your account and it will only take place as soon as you re-confirm your bank account information to me, so that I will be sure that I'm wiring the fund to the rightful ownership of the account.

I can take the risk on your behalf and program your account Details on the central telex system for first class swift transfer immediately after closing from official duty and then come back latter for the action, we will only tip the security officers on duty, remember if there's no risk, there will be no business.

I was meant to know after going through your file that you have spent quite a huge amount of money trying to get your fund transferred into your account and still to no avail but I guarantee you, it must be very successful this time. I was madly upset, when I noticed this and vowed to do everything humanly possible to get your fund wired into your account.

Make sure you re-confirm your bank account information below and call me immediately on receipt of this message because I'm getting a lot of pressure from the Board members.

Please confirm, if the above bank account belongs to you, before I proceed with your transfer.

I will await your urgent response.

Mr. Danny Price
Senior Telex Officer
African development bank (ADB)


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