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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: "Afua Mawusi Adofo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <afuamawusiadofo@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:32:19 -0800
Subject: I bring you good news

For Your Urgent Attention!

Good Day to you, I bring you good news and I hope i will not take too much of your time as I will be very direct on the subject matter.

I have chosen to reach you because I felt that business is taking risk, going from the known to the unknown.

I am a manager of Account/Operations Department of our bank here in Accra Ghana . In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of (US$11.5, million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who was before his death on Export and Buying of Gold and Diamond in Ghana and South Africa respectively as his file confirmed . He died in Kenya Airways crash in which all passengers on board died.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money for over 7years, since 2003 till now because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learn that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

You can check the website below for more details; http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html


It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill which has been on deliberation and will decided on before the end of the year 2011.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Ghanian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% for incurred expenses during the transaction, While 50% will be for me thereafter.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Let me know you thoughts and agreement on this proposal.

Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation
Best Regards,
Mrs Afua Mawusi. Adofo

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