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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: "General Peter" <info@mail.com>
Reply-To: generalpetera.blay32@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:22:10 +0300
Subject:

GOOD DAY TO YOU!!!!

I'm Brigadier General Peter A.Blay, from the Presidential Special
Initiative. I am mailing you in respect, of the present development going
on here in my country GHANA. I decided to contact you, after much
investigation which was carried out by the Bureau of
National Investigation (BNI) and also with the Ghana Police Service, in
order to make sure that our country is free from those fraudulent
activities, which is going on here
in Africa and for our country to also bear a good name.

The Airport Authority detected some trunk boxes after been scanned, the
authorities detected that the boxes contains funds on your name and email
that has been tempered
on, they were been smuggled into the country by foreign Personnel who were
on transit from London. These men were trying to enter the country with
the trunk boxes, when the
airport authority detected that these boxes contains, some huge amount of
United State Dollars. After much investigation we found out that these men
were among those men,
spoiling the good name of Africa. They opened up to us that, they actually
work with a Lotto company before their dismissal and used the opportunity
to perpetuate their
crimes, they told us that the funds inside the boxes was won by you, but
now they planned to turn back on you and decided to take the money all to
themselves out of the
country. We later found out on the investigation that was carried out,
these men are truly members of a well established organization in United
Kingdom..

As I write you this mail now, the three(3) men that were caught are now
in the custody of the Ghana Police Service over here in our country
Ghana, while we are trying to
track the others left, because they have proved to us that they belong to
one organization. That is why we have to reach you by your mail address
and name that was
tagged in the boxes, so we can make arrangement on the delivery of the
recovered boxes by a United Nation Diplomatic Personnel.

Your urgent response will be very much appreciated as soon as you have
received this email.Thank you for your kind attention, for us to make
sure our beloved country Ghana,
bears a good name.Please you are to provide this below information's..

A: FULL NAMES:
B: ADDRESS:
C: DIRECT CONTACT PHONE NUMBER:
D: SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR ANY RELEVANT
IDENTIFICATION PASSPORT.

This information will be required, by the authorities in Ghana to draft
the new change of ownership in your name as the rightful owner of the
funds in our custody and also to
verify the information given to us because the documentations covering the
boxes havev been tampered on.

Regards,

General Peter A Blay

CONTACT EMAIL:generalpetera.blay32@yahoo.com

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