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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: "George Amadator" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <georgeama01@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:30:30 -0700
Subject: From George Amadator

Dear sir
I am a contract worker with the United Bank of Africa (UBA) Ghana. I am in charge of credit control of petty cash and cheques. My duty is to sort out cheques and cash credits from customers and deposit them with the creditor's account daily after normalisation..
 
Here on my table are several cash deposits and cheques which have been paid in by customers without correct account numbers of the creditors,some of them have wrong account names,some are totally non existent.Therefore the funds are just on the float without any beneficiary. I am looking for someone that has account with any branch of UBA in Ghana. I will be depositing some money by cash and cheques in the account or regular bases.
 
If I do,you can cash the money by ATM of wire transfer in your country and send me 50% of it by Western Union or money gram. If I get my 50% ,I will deposit more. It will be a continuous process. There are no expenses or taxes or bribes invloved.All I need is an account with UBA Ghana. If you don’t have one then you can send small money with your identification , for me to open account in your name for you. Once you open the account .I must credit it with some money weekly.
If you are interested, then tell me if you have the account or you want to activate one. Confirm by email and your phone numbers so we can talk.
 
George Amadator
UBA Ghana

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