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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: affull_john@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:23:08 +0000
Subject: Urgent Assistance

Hello Dear Friend

My name is DR JOHN AFFULL, I am the branch manager of the
International Commercial Bank Kumasi branch Ghana. I got your
information during my search through the Internet. I am 46years of age
and married with 3 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am
a Man of peace and I don't want problem, but I do not know how you
will feel about this because you may have double mind. But I am
telling you that this is real and you are not going to regret after
doing this transaction with me. I only hope that we can assist each
other. But if you don't want this business offer kindly forget it and
I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us,
as the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank; it is my
duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital
city (Accra-Ghana) at the end of each year. On the course of end of
last year report 2010 , I discovered that my branch in which I am the
manager made three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar [3,
750.000.00] which my head office is not aware of it and will never be
aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE
ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an official of the bank I can not be directly connected to this
fund, so this informed me of contacting you for us to work, so that
you can assist and receive this fund into your bank account for us to
SHARE. Mean While you will have 35% of the total fund, 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 give you details on how
we can achieve it successfully.

Best Regards
DR JOHN AFFULL
Email:affull_john@yahoo.com

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