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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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Fraud email example:

From: alan david <mradavidoffice3@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 01:15:44 -0800
Subject: From George

From: Mr. George Lamptey,
International Commercial Bank
EMAIL:mrlamptey300@walla.com
Tel. +233 244 507 193.

Dear Sir,

My name is Mr.Lamptey, I am the Auditor of the International
Commercial Bank Ltd, First Light Kaneshie Branch. I have packaged a
financial transaction that will benefit both of us. I got your
information during my search through the Internet for a reliable and
matured investor.

As the Auditor of the Bank, it is my duty to send in a financial
report to myhead office , at the end of each year.On the course of the
last years 2011 end of year reports, I discovered that my branch in
which I am the auditor made One million nine hundred and fifty
thousand dollars [1,950.000.00] which my head office are not aware of
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 can not be directly connected to this money, so this informed
my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist and receive
this money into your bank account for us to SHARE.You will have 30% of
the total fund as your reward at the end of the transaction. All i
want you to do is to stand claim as the original depositor of this
fund.

I am 54 years of age and married with 3 lovely children. It may interest
you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problem, I only
hope we can assist each other. If you don't want this business offer
kindly forget it as I will not contact you again. Note there are
practically no risk involved, it will be 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 detail you on how we can achieve it
successfully.Attached is transfer form to fill for urgent transfer.

Best regards,
Mr George Lamptey.
mrlamptey300@walla.com

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