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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: "Duke Gyan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <duke.gyan244@adinet.com.uy>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:55:22 -0500
Subject: Compliment" From Duke, Please Reply Back

Good-Day,

My name is Mr.Duke Gyan, a politician and a previous member of Ghana's executive committee on contract awards.

My purpose of connecting you is to crave your indulgence to assist me in securing some funds abroad for safe keeping which I incidentally kept to help me finance my parliamentary elections campaign under the party umbrella of National Patriotic Party (NPP) last December 2012 which has just ended, Unfortunately for me I lost the seat to my opposition member under the party of National Democratic Congress (NDC).

But with my immediate contact, I was able to deposit some kickback money that emanated from award of contracts to Chinese and Malaysia companies into a commercial bank here in Ghana pending when I will find a trustworthy person to move out the funds from Ghana to an oversea bank account for business investment.

If you are intrested to assist and work with me ,kindly contact me back with your full names,your direct telephone number and your contact mailing address so that I will give you full details on the way forward.Waiting for your favourable positive response.

Kindest Regards,
Mr Duke Gyan

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