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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: "Favour Nanah" <ode_edd114@att.net>
Reply-To: <nanahfavour@2010mail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:46:55 +0100
Subject: Greetings

Greetings from Mr. Favour Nanah

Dear Partner

I am Favour Nanah from the Republic of Ghana.I would like you to know that i am the former regional manager of my bank branch in koumassi but now in our headquarter in Accra Ghana.Africa Development Bank Of Ghana, I only hope we can assist each other. But If you don't want this business offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you again. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us. As the regional manager of my bank branch. I want you to know that it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city at the end of each year.

On the course of the last year report,I discovered that my branch in which I was the manager has Three Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars($3,700.000.00) belonging to our late deceased client ,the account was opened in 2002 and he died in 2005 without a written or oral WILL
and since 2005 nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing and Government of Ghana will confiscate the funds for their personal use which I personally don't want such incident to happen being that this is a great opportunity for me.My head office are not aware of it and will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, I decided to ask for your assistance to make the claim That is why I ask that we work together, I will be pleased to work with you as trusted person and see that the fund is transferred out of my Bank into another Bank Account which you are going to provide, Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated Bank account we shall then share it in the ratio of 60% for me, 40% for you. Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be solely on 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 my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account. If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much.

As soon as I receive your response I will give you details on how we can achieve it successfully with all the vital information to perfect the claim. please contact me at: Favournanah@ymail.com

Regards,
Favour Nanah

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