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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 <kofi01adams@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:55:40 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Hello Dear,

Hello Dear,

I got your contact during my search for reliable, trustworthy and honest person to introduce this transfer project. My name is Mr. Kofi Adams. I East regional branch manager of the International Commercial Bank Limited - Ghana in West Africa. Sincerely I do not want problems, but I just hope you can help me. I am writing you this letter in good faith. I am in control of the amount of eight million five hundred U.S. dollars (USD $ 8.500.000.00), which was the excess profits made in our regional branch of the East in the last quarter of 2009, which I carefully placed in the Escrow Deposit Account and did not announce this to my head office.

Can I really trust you to hold this fund for me until I come to your country and pick it up yourself, and you deduct 30% of the total fund as their own commission, because we are not allowed to operate foreign currency account as public officials. If you accept my offer you can contact me immediately. If you do not agree, you can forget that I contacted you. All I need is for you to get me a very good bank account, which can contain this amount of stock in overseas. I discretely give you all information regarding this transaction, so you can officially refer to our head office for registration fund.There virtually no risk, it will be bank to bank transfer faster. Take my word for it.

I hope you understand my position. Thank you for your anticipated prompt response.

Sincerely,
Mr. Kofi Adams.

N / B: If you are willing and interested in working with me, come on in his response the following information on:

1. Your full name............
2. Resident Address...........
3. Country....................
3. Telephone..................
4. Fax Numbers................
5. Email Address..............
6. Occupation.................
7. Date of birth..............

The answer to my personal email address: (kofi01adams@gmail.com)

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