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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 John Kofi." <kwasijames1985@yahoo.co.th>
Reply-To: johnkofi@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 21:21:21 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: GET BACK TO ME VERY URGENT




Dear Friend.



I am Mr John Kofi. The Head of Accounts and Audit Department of FIDELITY BANK GHANA, I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may be capable of handling this business transaction which I explained below; I know you may be surprise of getting this message, In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of $7.5m US dollars (Seven million, Five hundred thousand US dollars) In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 2005 in a plane crash. bellow websites will give you more details concerning the crash. (http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/4537663.stm)



Since i got information about his death, The bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because The fund cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin (his son and wife) died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim .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 (I want to present you as his business associate ) to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.



The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained Unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.



I agree that 40% for you and 60% would be for me, There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as next of kin of the deceased customer.



If you are interested, please contact me with the following information about yourself as listed bellow.



Your full names....................

Your private telephone number.....

Your country..............

Your profession.........

your age..............

Your Sex.............

Your home address...



Yours faithfully,

Mr John Kofi,

Accounts & Audit Department.

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