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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: Edwin Ugondu <edwinugondu@accountant.com>
Reply-To: edugo123@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:15:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Private/Confidential Respond


Good day Friend,

I hope this may not constitute sort of embarrassment to you, but I
will be very please if this transaction will make us know each other
as we both are going to benefit from this transaction, First I must
solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its
nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. But I am assuring
you that all will be well at the end of the day.

 I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of
us,as the regional manager of the Guaranty Trust Bank Limited; it is
my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital
city Accra at the end of each year. On the course of the last year end
of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager
made $11.500.000.00USD (Eleven Million, Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) which my head office are not aware of and will never
be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE
ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

40% for you 50% for I and the remaining 10% for any

Legal expenses we have acquired in this transaction.

Note! There are practically no risk involved, this transaction is 100%
risk free and legal, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from
you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made
the deposit with our branch so that our Head office can order the
transfer to your designated bank account.


Best regards
Edwin Ugondu

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