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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: "Malam Usman" <malamusman55@gmail.com>
Reply-To: malamusman03@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 22:53:28 +0700 (WIT)
Subject: PLEASE REPLY1




Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)
Our Ref: SCB/IRD/CBX/021/04
Malam Usman. Executive Manager,
Standard Chartered Bank(SCB)
Accra Ghana.



RE: BANK ERROR IN YOUR FAVOR:$USD15MUSD.

Dear Friend.

I am Malam Usman the Executive Manager of Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)
Since my assumption of office , I have been able to offset most Overdue
contract sums owed by the Government of Ghana to Foreign contractors in
the past years. In the process of these payments, I discovered through
investigation
that my predecessor moved out the above-mentioned sum outside but was
unable to conclude the transaction before he was removed out of office
unaware and the bank codes changed. The fund originated from the balance
of over-invoiced sum and
inflated government contracts of which the principal sum had been paid to
foreign contractors that executed their contract some years ago.

This fund is now floating

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