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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: Ecobank Ghana Ltd Opoku Morgan <ecoopokumorgan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:00:35 +0100
Subject: Re: Immediate remittance Of Your US$3M Interest Payment Without any Hitch


ECOBANK GHANA LTD
19, SEVENTH AVE RIGDE (WEST)
ACCRA-GHANA
TELEX: ECOBNKGH


Attn: Beneficiary,

*Re: Immediate remittance Of Your US$3M Interest Payment Without any Hitch*

Sequel to our board of directors meeting recently which your file was
reviewed that sometime ago in our bank, your inheritance fund was brought
to our bank from Economic Community of West African Foreign Payment Panel
of Africa country and after some period, they call the fund bank to their
treasury in World Bank. For the period of time this money was in our bank,
it generated an interest of US$3Million, which we considered your long
suffering as we have the knowledge that you have not receive a single cent
from your inheritance fund from Africa rather than paying for this or that
due to corrupt government and bad bank officials in Africa and we have
decided to pay you this US$3M to console your suffering in their hands.

As you know very well how monitored it is for fund transaction above
US$500,000.00 around the globe and the circumstance surrounds it. We have
concluded plans to be crediting your account bit by bit of US$500,000.00 on
each transfer. All you need to do now is to reconfirm your bank
information’s where the fund will be transferred with your mobile telephone
number.

Note; we have only 7 working days to complete the transaction.

Regards,

Mr.Opoku Morgan
In't Remittance Director
Ecobank Ghana Ltd
Accra-Ghana

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