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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. Emmanuel Attah. <e.attahema@gmail.com>
Reply-To: e.attahemanuel1@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:09:50 +0300
Subject: YOUR URGENT ATTENTION IS HIGHLY NEEDED PLEASE.

Dear Friend,

With due respect, I write you this proposal believing that it will receive the most desired attention from you even as we have not had any previous correspondence, Although, I am constrained by insufficient information about you, but I will express in full the main objectives of this proposal.

My name is Mr. Emmanuel Attah; I work in the credit and accounts department of Agricultural Development Bank ADB, in Ghana. I write you in respect of a foreign customer with our bank, before his sudden death. His name is (Mr. Ali Soud) He was among those who died on April 7th tsunami in Japan 2011.

Since the demise of this our customer, (Mr. Jim) who was an oil Merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and accounts and since then nobody has come to claim the money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer, He had only $8.4mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the code or password of the Deposit particulars. As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce the needed information other than my very self considering my position in the bank as his account officer. Based on the reason is that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as next of kin,

I hereby ask for your cooperation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At this point, I am the only one with the information because I have removed the deposit file from the safe. By this doing, what is required of you is to let me know if you are interested to work with me on this business parade to enable me furnish you with more details on how we are going to execute this transaction without any further delay.

I am asking for your assistant to release the money to you as his relation/next of kin for safekeeping and disbursement. I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive, but I am assuring you of the security of us all as modalities have been perfected for a swift and smooth operation.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch-free and that there is absolutely no risk in it, having concluded the modalities for a smooth operation and my position in the bank guarantees its successful execution. All I require is your honest co-operation, a guarantee of your sincerity and capability to enable us concludes this deal. Note however that the sensitive nature of this transaction demands that you have to keep it absolutely confidential.

Notwithstanding, I want you to know that we shall share in ratio 50%50 because I don’t want to be greedy.

I remain respectfully,

Mr. Emmanuel Attah,
(Audit and Accounting Manager)
Agricultural Development Bank (ADB)
E-mail: e.attahemanuel1@gmail.com


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