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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: barrwilliamsogbigbi3 barrwilliamsogbigbi3 <barrwilliamsogbigbi3@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:15:14 -0700
Subject: Best Regard, United Nation Barrister, Williams Ogbigbi.

UNITED NATION BARR. WILLIAMS OGBIGBI FROM THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE GHANA

Dear: Foreign Beneficiary,


I am Barrister Williams Ogbigbi from Parliament House Accra Ghana, i was
mandated by the united nation and the Ecowas body to stand for you as a
united nation Antony to enable you receive all your pending funds from
Africa especially Ghana, and the united Nation and the Ecowas body say you
are to receive all your funds from Africa through me as your appointed
barrister because it have come to their notice that you have bee working
with some group of people who claim to be barristers, bankers, general,
engineer, IGP, Western union manager,ETC, Because of this you refuse to
work with the right people that is why you are not receiving any thing
because those people can not make you receive cent from Africa that is why
the united nation and the Ecowas body appointed me to stand for here and
monitoring your funds so that you can receive all successfully.

Now if you receive any email from any body try as much as possible to
forward it to me for proper verification before you do any thing with that
person to avoid scam problem ok, I was in the Eco bank Ghana where Rev Dr.
Okeke Favour is the Managing Director i find out you have 110 Million
united state dollars there in their bank and the bank manager Rev Dr. Okeke
Favour make me to understand that for you to receive that money very fast
is that you have to open an account call online account with their bank so
that immediately they open the account for you the information of the
account will be given to you and they will give instruction to follow to
enable you transfer your funds by your self your country successfully with
any problem.

You can reply to my private email(barristerwilliamsogbigbi@gmail.com).

Here is the bank email address you can contact the bank for more details:(
ecobankgroupgh300@gmail.com) under the managing Director Rev Dr. Okeke
Favour.

IM looking forward to hear from you.

Best Regard,


United Nation Barrister,
Williams Ogbigbi.
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