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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: amos Gomogo <amos_gomogo@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:47:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?RHIuQW1vcyBHb21vZ28gRGlyZWN0b3Igb2YgQWlycG9ydCBNYW5hZ2VtZW50?=
=?utf-8?B?LCBLb3Rva2EgSW504oCZ?=


ATTN:BENEFICIARY,
 
                                        
 I am the Director of Airport Management Ghana Civil Aviation Authority Kotoka International Airport . I was ordered by His Excellency the secretary to the President of GHANA to contact you, on the present development going on here in our country and also in the Kotoka International airport.
 
We decided to contact you, after much investigation which was carried out by the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) and also the Ghana Inter-Pole. It is with the aim of making sure that our country together with our neighboring West African countries is free from this ongoing scam/fraud activities. Hereby redeeming our good name.
 
Recently our intelligence service caught up with three (2) young men at our own KOTOKA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT . They claim to be bank managers working in a bank which they did not disclosed (even with serous interrogation). These men where flying out of Africa and were on transit in our country Ghana .
 
They have with them 0ne (2) metallic trunk box,weight 2ft and 40kg , and we detected (from our scan machine) that these box contains huge amount of United State Dollars. After much investigation we found out that these men were among these scammers, spoiling the good name of Africa . They opened up to us that, the funds inside the box were for you.  That you live abroad and that the money inside the boxes were suppose to be transfer into your bank account.
 

Now as i write to you,the law has caught up with them and they are facing serious problems now we sent them to. And as this boxes with the funds rightfully belongs to you and also we have all information, we decide to contact you. We have our own special Government delivery diplomat that will be assigned to come to make the delivery to you by a diplomatic means into any delivery destination of your choice. Therefore, on the receipt of this mail, you are requested to reply urgently for formal initialization of the delivery.
 
Finally, your prompt response will determine the speed of your delivery.Please do send me the information below :
 
FULL NAME:
COUNTRY
FAX NUMBER:
EMAIL ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER ALWAYS REACHABLE TO YOU:
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CLOSE TO YOUR HOUSE:
NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD/ DRIVER'S LINCENSE.
 

Thank you for your kind attention.
 
Warm regards,
 
Dr.Amos Gomogo
Director of Airport Management,
Kotoka Int’l airport,

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