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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: David Kufour <mrdkur1@att.net>
Reply-To: David Kufour <mravidkofour88@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:39:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: GOD BLESS YOU



 Dear Friend,

My name is Mr.David Kofour. I am the regional manager of Standard Chartered Bank
of Ghana Takoradi Branch in the western region of Ghana. I got your information
on a recent bank conference with other East African countries held in
Johannesburg the capital city of South Africa.

I write you this proposal in good faith, I am a man of peace. I have packaged a
financial transaction that will benefit you and I,as the regional manager of the
Standard Chartered 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 Three Million Seven hundred and thirty thousand
united state dollars ($3,730,000.00) which my head office arenot 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 35% of the total funds as commission.

There are practically no risks involved, it will be a bank-to-bank transfer, and
all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of these funds
who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the
transfer to your designated bank account.


Thanking you in advance for your kind and urgent response, more so for keeping
our proposal to your self.

FULL NAME...........
ADDRESS.............
AGE.................
SEX.................
OCCUPATION..........
MARITAL STATUS......
TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER......

You should also note that the transaction would only take (8) fourteen working
days.


Remain Bless in Jesus Amen

Mr.David Kofour.

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