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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: "Mr DUKU Charles" <dukucharles222@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:16:44 +0100
Subject: ATTN PLEASE TRY TO GET BACK TO ME

Dear Sir
It is my Pleasure to introduce myself to you, my name is Mr.DUKU CHARLES I am the Regional bank manager of a bank in ghana. I came to know you in my Private Search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this Confidential Transaction. I am 52 years of age and married with 3 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and INTERGRITY; I only hope we can assist each other.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us,as the regional manager of the bank it is my duty to send in a financial report of all monthly transaction to my head office in thecapital city Accra at the end of each year.

On the course of last year 2009 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I
am the manager made an excess profit of five million dollars USD{$7,000,000.00}of which my head office is not aware of and will never be aware of It, I have since placed this funds on what we call ESCROW ACCOUNT without any beneficiary. As an officer of the bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, this is why I'm contacting you so that you can assist and receive this money into your bank account for us

To SHARE. I will offer you 50% for you and 50% for me of the total Sum of Amount for your assistance.Note that there are practically no risks involved in this transaction,it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund by opening a non residential account with the bank via a banking officer I have mandated to facilitate this transaction, after wish the funds would be transferred into your account from the escrow account as an internal transaction, thank you.

Best regards
Mr.DUKU CHARLES

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