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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: edward blu <edwardblu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 01:42:48 -0500
Subject: Hello My friend

*Hello My friend,

We want to transfer to overseas ($ 24,000.000.00 USD) from a prime bank
here in Ghana, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest
person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even
an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain
honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and
believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.

I am Dr Edward Blu, Director of International Relation with a bank here in
Ghana,during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an
account opened in the bank in 2001 and since 2002 nobody has operated on
this account again, after going through some old files in the records I
discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the
money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr.Louis Kennedy , a foreigner, and a sailor,
and he died since 2002. and no other person knows about this account or any
thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that Late Mr.Louis Kennedy was the
manager of K.Louis LTD.

We will start the first transfer with Six Million USD [$6,000.000.00] upon
successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account,The amount
involved is $24M I want to first transfer $6,000.000 [Six Million United
States Dollar from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before
the rest, but I don't know any foreigner in my life, I am only contacting
you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person
here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be
approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers
license and foreign a/c because the money is in US dollars and the former
owner of the a/c Mr.Louis Kennedy was a foreigner too, [and the money can
only be approved into a foreign a/c.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, 5% will be for expenses both parties might have
incurred during the process of transferring and 5% will be for orphanage
homes.

If you are interested in this offer, kindly get back to me through my
private e-mail address( <edwardblu@gmail.com>edwardblu@gmail.com) so that I
can furnish you with more details and next step forward.
Yours Sincerely,
Edward Blu*

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