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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. Richmond Asante" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <richasante1@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:10:16 +0100
Subject: Respond Back // important

Dear Sir,
I am Mr. Dundas Boba Asst. Commercial Head at Cadbury Ghana Limited, Dept of Food & Beverages.
I wish to bring to your hearing a business proposal of which will make anyone anxious to accept and finalize this transaction in less than two weeks. I do request your pardon to accept the content of my letter to you since we have not had any business connections with each other before, this business is genuine and is 100% risk free.
>From the sales dept an unclaimed sum of USD$9.5m, Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars was discovered in an account belonging to one of our deceased international customers late Mr. Mihail Mihov from Bulgaria.
Unfortunately neither Cadbury Ghana Limited nor late Mr. Mihail Mihov family are aware of this fund deposited in the Access Security affiliate bank. The fund cannot be released unless somebody applies as the next of kin or relation to the deceased.

I need your full maximum support and cooperation to enable us achieves this transaction within the shortest period, I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Please, If you are interested in this transaction, kindly send me your full name, address, private telephone and fax numbers to enable us commence all the legal documents immediately.

Waiting for your urgent response,

Regards,

Mr. Dundas Boba
Asst. Commercial Head
Cadbury Ghana Limited

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