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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: Eric Kwesi Solomon <erksolomon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:52:04 +0000
Subject: hi

Good day to you.

This letter could be a surprise to you because you did not give me the
permission to do so and neither do you know me but before I tell you about
myself I want you to please forgive me for sending this letter without your
permission. I am
Mr. Eric Kwesi Solomon the regional manager Standard Chartered Bank Ghana
Ltd Tema Branch.

With due respect I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of
US$12,000,000.00. This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am
the manager made as excess profit during the 2011 financial year. I have
already submitted annual report for that year to my head office here in
Accra as I have watched with keen interest as they will never know of this
excess.

I have since placed this amount of US$12,000,000.00 on an Escrow Coded
account without a beneficiary (Anonymous) to avoid trace. As an officer of
the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled
to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account
on my behalf.

Although, I kept this information secret within myself to enable the whole
plans and idea be profitable and successful during the time of execution. I
agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner in
respect to the provision of a foreign account and 60% would be for me. I do
need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this. It's
going to be a bank-to-bank wire transfer. All I need from you is to stand
as the original depositor of this fund so that the fund can be transferred
to your account.

This is why and only reason I contacted you, I am willing to invest the
fund into your company with your wealth of experience, So please if you are
interested to assist on this venture kindly contact me back for a brief
discussion on how to proceed.

I wait for your kind response after reading this letter and questions were
in doubts for clarification.

Regards,
Mr. Eric Kwesi Solomon
SCB Ghana.
Accra Ghana

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