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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. John Mensah" <rregionaloffice@att.net>
Reply-To: <remmttdd@live.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:29:04 -0000
Subject: ABOUT YOUR UNPAID FUND

Our Ref No:-....../Sec01/Per A1/00084
 
Attn:
Great wonderful Cheers, excellent Citizen, because finally our First Citizen & President, Senator Barack Obama on his trips to the West African Sub-Region of Africa a.k.a (ECOWAS) consisting of Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast & Senegal, had in his great Diplomatic silks found sufficient time to discussed various issues on personal terms that effects the Citizens of the World at wild and our great America in particularly and finally arrived on the most broaden issue of excessive extortion's of money on mere transfer of peoplesFunds and after days of serious deliberations, consultations and Dialogues, in conclusion a Bilateral Agreement were drawn up to an unprecedented victories, which is a collective victory won for all and sundry.
Subsequently, the ECOWAS Governments unanimously was forced to adopts a new Humanitarian face in their respective Foreign Policies, as it drastically agreed to stocks piled the thousands of Foreign Funds into one Commission, held under the extortionist hands of many Ministries, Financial Institutes, Establishments and last but not the least the Shylock Couriers Firms and itssisterly criminal associates like the Western Unions & ATM Cards Schemes.
The Commission was inaugurated and graced by the President, as it was him that came up with the befitting Name of Presidential Monitoring Commission to oversee the great dispensation of Justice, as the Executive Members drew from effected Countries were charged with the duties of judiciously discharging their duties without any act of favors to shut off the forces of excessive corruption.
Consequentially, you are charged to STOP forthwith every dealings,whatsoever communications with any unauthorized Bodies, Associations, Organizations or Financial Institutes and if you should choose to continue on your own accordance with them, this is practically to your preys, as the Government will not take responsibility or action when you finally discovered you had been fooled; hence your Millions US Dollars collectively gathered in bucks from these faceless arms of bandit officials will automatically be lost to the winds.
There is no fanfares, no too much Bureaucratic Protocols, no further exhibit-ant charges or excessive inundated pressures of extortionist charges quite prevalent with these new trends of fraudulent transfers activities, besides based on the UNs & USA established Laws on Foreign Monetary Transfers, which became effective after the bloody World Trades Fairs Complexes tragedies under which many thousands of lives were unnecessarily lost and to prevent such re occurrences or repetition of it.
Officially, all necessary Documents has been dutifully endorsed by our Ambassador and the Security Attaché in respects of you, whilst to recoup small from the huge amount of money Paid out to the ECOWAS Governments,
 
RE - VERIFICATION OF YOUR PAYMENT FILE.
This is to inform you that from our records of outstanding payments owed to you on your inheritance /contract /consignment with the West - African states government, your name/particulars was discovered as next on the list of outstanding clients who have not yet received their payments. We wish to inform you that your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you respond to this email with your full details because some other persons are laying claims in your name, that you are dead, that's why this re-validation to crosscheck their claims. Also note that from our record in our files your outstanding part payment is us$4,700,000.00 USD. (Four million seven hundred thousand united states dollars).
 
Please kindly re-confirm the followings:
1) Your full names:
2) Your contact address:
3) Phone, fax and mobile #:
4) Private email address :
Legal Endorsement and costs which if adhesively followed strictly with disciplined without rooms or any iota of scepticisms.
(a) Your Fund will be transfer directly to you by HSBC BANK NEW YORK as as agreed upon your quick response
Now you have only 24 hour of being in receipt of this Mail and as stipulated by the International Edicts of the existing UNs Charter By-Laws established under the HumansRights Constitutions biding strictly also on the Banking Institutes in Chapter 221, Section 74B, Sub-Section C 57 promulgated in the Geneva Conventions in 1986 as a fundamental force to sue us for default, while we await your swift compliance to this.
Dont waste your precious time ruminating in the past with unnecessary contemplations, drooling on worthless arguments and scepticisms as it is most commonplace with people destined for failures, men of acute indecisiveness, men with solid constitutions neither principle nor integrity, who could not pull themselves aloof from the faces of sheer Truth: now make the compulsory thresh forward and see to it that this chance does not eludes you, because it can never come-by again in your life-timetrust your great instinct this once and believes nothing is going to go wrong, course it really wouldnt!!!
 
Regards,
Mr. John Mensah
Secretary to Accountant General
Christian T. Sottie Accra Ghana
 

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