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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: Igor Watkins <agencydiplomatic@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 09:44:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: BLACK MONEY DISCOVED


Dear   Foreign  Beneficiary,


Following the meeting which was held between the new
appointed management of Barclay's Wealth Group in Accra,Ghana with top
government officials and the United Nation's Diplomatic Representative
in the name of Lt. General  Babacar Gaye,the
various boxes had been scanned and since the content was missed up
between fake currency and good currency,the government officials
blatantly changed the plan of moving the funds in cash to you as this
is against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Organization
which is against defaced fund.Defaced funds are monetary prototype
which undergoes redefining prior to being use as a public tender,this
according to the Financial expart is an illegal tender as it can not be
declared as a legal tender in the Public Market so the newly
implemented Barclay's Wealth Group which currently handles Government
Debts  which I am currently the pioneering Director was issued with the
mandate of separating the defaced funds from the real valuable funds so
we have sent off the Boxes to our Foreign Treasury Operations to hand
over the two(2)to the Government's Printing and Minting so as soon as
the good money is sorted out from the defaced money,we shall be obliged
to commence the wiring modalities of the good funds which serves as a
legal tender to your designated Bank Account.

Please,you
are to be patient with this development as this is contrary to the cash
transit arrangement.Due to past experiences had by  United States Financial Monitorying Regulations
Policy which scrutinizes every boxes sent from West Africa and
discovers that most of the boxes had black papers,defaces papers mixed
up with raw dollars bails so decides that in future such boxes much
undergo some level of screening in order to determine the real content
also they discovers that most of such boxes declared as money sometimes
contains hard drugs instead of money so ECPA-European Currency Protection Agency and FSA-Financial Security Services are warned to cross check while West African Monetary Agency handles
checking with the top government officials attached to such duties in
Ghana here.It was during the spot check that it was discovered that the
2 boxes on your name had defaced dollars(fake money) and real $ Dollar
bails so separation is going on right now and the amount for the real
dollars would be communicated to you and modalities of transfer will be
made known to you also.

You are to send us the following
information in order to re-affirm we are not communicating with the
wrong person other than you so we need a copy of your valid identity
card or passport,Your full address ,Banking Particulars to enable us
process your data base analytical cross border electronic cable
transmission which will lick the available payment with any of the
financial instrument we shall use to implement your payment at our
disposal which shall be in form of ATM MASTER GOLD CARD-Automated Master Gold card has the capacity to contain large sum of money and there is no limit to your withdrawal,We have Bankers Check andIrrevocable Bank's draft,Swift MT 740 etc so in case you have any preference do let us know.


Thank you and sorry for the inconveniences this is going to cause you.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Benjamin Debrah.
MD BARCLAY'S/NEW IMPLEMENTING DIRECTOR,
BARCLAY'S WEALTH GROUP,
ACCRA,
GHANA.
WEST AFRICA.
Email:ben.debrah@barclayswg.com
+233- 5-71610929
Miss. Joyce M. Tablu.
Secretary.

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