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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: "S. Ofori Asari" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stevenoforiasari@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 21:53:09 +0100
Subject: Urgent Letter From the Desk of: Dr. Paul Akofi

>From the Desk of: Dr. Paul Akofi
Attn: Beneficiary

By legislative resolution reached on 29th February 2012 following the complaint and petition received by the Office of the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Ghana (PROF. ATTAH MILLS ) from foreign beneficiaries over the non-payment of their claims, this presidential commission on fact finding and foreign payment was inaugurated to release immediately all the payment that have received approval like yours, via Eco Bank Ghana (EcoBank). I’m pleased to inform you that we have verified every aspect of your payment and have submitted a written report to the President of Ghana, the Ministry of Finance and the Republic House of Representative sub committees on Finance and Foreign Payment. We are going to transfer your payment upon receiving your confirmation because we are confused on which account to make the transfer into as we received a Deutsche
Bank Account details from this man whose passport photograph appeared below claiming to be the rightful beneficiary thereby contradicting your earlier account detail in our data bank. PLEASE CLARIFY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION
(1). Did you at any point transfer your right of ownership to one MR. KAZIMOV NATIG, to claim and receive the payment on your behalf?
(2) His claim was backed with a "Deed of Agreement "in his favour thereby indicating the fund destination to the following account. Account name: CORRESPONDENT BANK : Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americans, New York Correspondent Account USD 04-164-504 BENEFICIARY BANK: The International Bank of Azerbaijan Republic
S.W.I.F.T. Code: IBAZAZ2X
Beneficiary: KAZIMOV NATIG
Beneficiary Account: IND-144815-USD-3811-01
Bank Adress is: No. 3 Tagiyev street, Baku Azerbaijan, Tel: +99 412
4988189. Please are you aware of this? You are required as a matter of urgency to confirm the legitimacy of the above claim and the reason for such change. In event you did not authorize such claim, please confirm to us immediately by way of application for contract payment stating your authentic account details, contract number and amount for the authentication and normalization through this E-mail: stevenoforiasari@gmail.com all letters must be attention to the Chairman of the Commission, DR. PAUL AKOFI. You are required to submit this authentication before the transfer will be effected as we are bound to recognize KAZIMOV NATIG 'S claim and release the payment if we do not receive your submission to this enquiry as quickly as possible.

MR. STEVEN OFORI ASARI
Assistant Chairman of the Commission

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