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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: "Auditor General" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pauladams-remt-dept@accountant.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 18:00:11 -0700
Subject: -----Original Message----- You should Read this--------



INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK (GH).LTD
Foreign Remittance Department
Meridian House Ring Road Central, Private Mail Bag No.16 Accra , Ghana .




My Dear,



Please do not think this is one of those junk mails you receive in your mailbox/fax machine, which I receive also, but I plead for your tolerance

I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us, I also need to ascertain your dispositions towards receiving and utilizing information from me that guarantees you being legally acknowledged as the sole surviving foreign partner of an investor I have all the legal and banking details of the deceased client that will facilitate putting you forward as the claimant/beneficiary of the funds and ultimately transfer of the Inheritance.


I want us to transfer to overseas account ($45,000.000.00 USD) Fourth five million United States Dollars which will paid out on Draft deposit from the Apex Bank of the Nation (Bank of Ghana ) B.O.G here in Accra-Ghana, I am looking for a quietly ,reliable and a honest person like your company who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing Bank account or to set up a New Bank A/c Immediately to receive this money, even an empty A/c can serve to receive this money, or International Visa card system as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in the nearest future, I need your outmost trust.


My name is Dr. Paul Adams I am 56 years, presently promoted to the Auditor General of the International Commercial Bank. During the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 2000 and since 2004 till date nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account Dr. David Clemeston died with all the members of his family, hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.


The owner of this account is an American by name Dr. David Clemetson a Doctor and great industrialist and a resident of Seattle State, who unfortunately lost his life in the plane, crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2003, including the entire Clemetson family of Seattle: Dr. David and Carolyn Clemetson, and their children Coriander, 8, Blake, 7, Miles, 6, and Spencer, 6 months old leaving nobody to claim the money. No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, you can visit this site on the internet for your verification:


http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/eeg/cache/seattletimes.nwsource.com/vict_20000202.html. the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the account is a secret account, NOW THE CRUX OF THIS LETTER is that the government of Ghana is fully paying all foreign beneficiary and bad debts owned, on such amount of Funds and i want to include this fund among those benefited in this last quarter payment schedule which has already been assigned.



The total amount involved is Fourth five million United States Dollars only [$45,000.000.00] and I wish to transfer this money into a safe foreigners account abroad, I am only contacting you as a foreigner, Consequently my proposal is that i will like you as a Foreigner to stand in as the foreign partner of late Dr. Clemetson who deposited the said fund in our bank, the more reason I am writing you is because since i am a public servant, i cannot operate a foreign account.


I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently to achieve through all legal modalities.



I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down or disclose this project to a third party; I want you deeply involved with me in this business. I guarantee you that this transaction will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law here in Ghana and in your country; all documents will be destroyed immediately you receive this money leaving no trace to any place. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this business, I am ready to share the money 50/50% and 5%will be set aside to repay any incured fee for this process.


Contact me with your full legal name, scanned copy of your passport or international driver’s license and contact telephone number for further verbal correspondence, on your reply i will attach the application form to send to the Bank and request for onward transfer of the total fund and deposit certificate as evidence.


You must maintain a great deal of confidentiality towards this endeavor.


I await your urgent response.

Regards,
Dr. Paul Adams,
Auditor General.
Foreign Remittance Department
Meridian House Ring Road Central,
Private Mail Bag No.16 Accra-Ghana.




NOTE: If however, you are not disposed to assist, kindly delete/destroy this email in view of the confidentiality of the proposed transaction and interest of personalities involved

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