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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: "Mrs.Linda" <mrs.marykobinascb1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: lindakoja@ymail.com
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 00:09:44 +0000
Subject: Attention: From Mrs. Linda Koja

Greeting's to you and your family,

(Monday, October 1, 2012)
Attention: From Mrs. Linda Koja.

I anticipate that you read this mail quickly and let me know your
opinion or willingness on this classified information that I will
release to you.

Firstly, I am a happily married woman with 2 kids and therefore I
would not want to jeopardize this opportunity to change my financial
status that will give my family a secured future.

I am Mrs. Linda Koja. The branch manager of the Standard Chartered
Bank of Ghana, Tema Branch. I got your information during my search
through the Internet. I am 39 years of age and married with 2 lovely
kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a woman of PEACE and don't
want any problem, but I don't know how you will feel about this, but I
am telling you that this is real and you are not going to regret after
doing this transaction with me. I only hope we can assist each other.
But if you don't want this business offer kindly forget it as I will
not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us,
as the Regional manager of the Standard Chartered Bank Of Ghana, Tema
Branch; It is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office
in the capital city Accra-Ghana at the end of each year. On the course
of the year 2011 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in
which I am the Manager made Nine Million Six Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Dollars [$9,650.000.00] which my head office are not aware of
and they will never be aware of, Nor must they know that I am involved
in this transaction.

I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE OR ESCROW
ACCOUNT without any beneficiary. As an officer of the bank I can not
be directly connected to this money, so this informed my contacting
you for us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your
bank account for us to share, while you will have 50% of the total
fund.

Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank
transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the rightful
depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my
Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account. If
you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much.
As soon as I receive your kind response, I will give you details on
how we can achieve it successfully. Please to proceed with me in this
transaction I will appreciate if you provide me this information
mentioned below.

1) Full Name
2) Occupation
3) Age:
4) Telephone Number/fax
5) Your Country of Origin:
6) Sex/ Marital Status:
7) Contact Address:
8) Driven License or international passport

Thank you in advance and bless you and your family.

Yours truly,
Mrs. Linda Koja.

CONTACT ME.
Skype ID linda.koja
Tel: +233 20 011 4082
Mobile: +23354721774
Fax: +233 261 775 938
EMAIL: (lindakoja@ymail.com)

Looking forward to a cordial Business relationship with you.

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