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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: "Kofi Adams" <koadams0@globomail.com>
Reply-To: koadams@globomail.com
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:11:07 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Good deal for us




Dear friend,

My Name is Kofi Adams And I work in the International operation department
in a Local Bank here in Accra Ghana On a routine inspection, I discovered
a dormant domiciliary account with a BAL Of 36,000,000 (Thirty Six Million
USD) on further discreet investigation I also discovered that the account
holder has long since passed away (Dead) leaving no beneficiary to the
account

The bank will approve this money to any foreigner who apply for the funds
because the former operator of the a/c is a foreigner and from Iraq in
particular and I am certainly sure that he is dead and nobody will come
again for the claim of this money A foreigner can only claim this money
with legal claims to the account Holder therefore I need your cooperation
in this transaction. I will provide the necessary information needed in
order to claim this money, you will have no problem because I am here to
direct you.

And I am assuring you that the transaction is risk free hence we are going
to follow the normal transfer process. Finally a 25% of the total fund
will be given to you for your steadfast corporation. Upon the receipt of
the above details, payment will be activated by the feeding of your data
into payment system, followed by a signal that will be sent to the paying
bank to remit funds into your nominated bank account within 5 official
working days of receipt of the above information.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr. Kofi Adams.

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