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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: "Mr.Namani Yuri Adams," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gg001md@att.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 18:32:41 +0100
Subject: Re:Attn:.....

Attn:

I am Mr.Namani Yuri Adams, Working under Ghana Office of the
presidency(Late. Professor John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills born on July 21st,
1944, at Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana and
hails from Ekumfi Otuam in the Mfantsiman ...) as personal investments
manager on foreign affair matters, I have been working with the Late.
Professor John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills for years now before his death, he was fully buried some while ago, immediately
after the burial, the government and our people internally now trying to
track down all his personal investments, they are seriously looking for me and my entire family because
they believe that I have vital information regarding the late president
foreign investments.

As a foreigner working with such position in this country, I have to secure
myself first before they kill me because of their selfish interest, the rest
of the late President investments funds under my possession, which am not ready to disclose to
their people or the government, because the new president/ Parliament has
approved a credit agreement between the government of Ghana and CAL Bank
Ghana Limited for the medium term loan facility for the procurement of
vehicle and communication equipment for the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF).

But internally, he was busy trying to track the late president secret
investments,Am seeking for a reliable person whom I can trust and help me
out on this situation, we shall embark on good deal if we can have a mutual
understanding between us, I will first of all, send my family over to your country if you may perhaps you ready to
work with me, once I send my family out from Ghana here, I will start my
internal work on how to execute the late President investment Funds to my family under your care, I have many
insider in most of his financial sides, but we have to keep everything
secret till we discuss in details.

If you can work with me, we shall first of all discuss in details, once I
hear back fromyou, further information regarding this matter, will be stated out from me.
I will like this to be confidential so i will need your private mobile number.

Thank you.

Mr.Namani Yuri Adams

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