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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: "Daniel Charles" <safracatz@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: daniel_charles@mail.com
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:01:13 -0400 (VET)
Subject: Re:How Are You Doing!

Dear Friend,

I assume that you will be surprise to reading this piece of confidential
information from an unknown person and from a high position in the banking
Industry. However, pardon me if you are offended upon receiving this
proposal since we have no formal contact. I am Daniel Charles. the branch
of the National Investment Bank Limited Osu Branch Accra Ghana. I write to
solicit your kind partnership in a fund transfer deal of US$ 6,400.000.00.
I stashed the fund out of the profit made by this branch National
Investment Bank Limited in the year 2010. As the manager of the bank, I
have already submitted an approved End of the Year report for the year
2010 to my Head Office here in Accra-Ghana and they have issued our branch
a satisfactory certificate of performance for the year 2010. This amount
of $ 6,400,000.00 is presently held on a Sundry Account where I have
placed it without a beneficiary.



As a serving officer of the bank, I cannot be directly involved to this
money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance and partnership to
receive this money into your bank account. I intend to part 40% of this
fund to you while 60% shall be for me. I do need to stress that there are
practically no risk involved in this. It's going to be a simple
bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand claim as the
original depositor of this fund.
If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response, as I
have meticulously planned a swift transfer of the fund to any account you
will nominate in your country or elsewhere. Upon the confirmation of your
interest to partner with me, I will let you know the measures I have
mapped out to achieve this objective, I will reveal them to you as soon I
hear from you.


Your earliest response would be appreciated.
Regards,
Dr.Daniel Charles,


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