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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: =?UTF-8?Q?Mr=2E_J=C3=B6rg_Frieden?= <admin@retake.com>
Reply-To: dr.fritzgockel510@yahoo.es
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:09:04 -0600
Subject: Ok



--
The World Bank was created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, along
with
three other institutions, including the International Monetary Fund
(IMF).
The World Bank and the IMF are both based in Washington DC, and
work closely with each other such as all banks in America/Europe.

Although many countries were represented at the Bretton Woods
Conference,
the United States and United Kingdom were the most powerful in
attendance
and dominated the negotiations whereby all
American/European citizen shall receive their funds.

In 2010, voting powers at the World Bank were revised to increase the
voice
of beneficiary, the World Bank Institute (WBI) can be defined as a
"global
connector of knowledge of beneficiary to be aware of EU
Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) innovation for poverty reduction". It
aims
to inspire change agents and prepare beneficiary with essential tools
that
can help achieve development results in the transaction of
funds from West Africa.

In the month of August 19. 2013 President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim
has given a mandate to the European Union Monitoring Mission and
European
Union Economic and Monetary Affairs that all American/European
citizen that are expecting funds above us$200,000.00 dollars should
secure
EU financial transaction tax (FTT) from the origin of their funds before
the funds will be alone to reflect in account. On 28 September
2012, president of the European Commission Jose Barroso officially
presented a plan to create a new financial transactions tax "to make the
financial sector (beneficiary/fund owner) pay its fair share because of
the funds been transfer into your bank from Ghana.

The European Union financial transaction tax body are supervising the
Day-to-day financial activities of citizens and businesses and funds
Transactions and it is deem necessary for you to contact Dr.Fritz
Gockel,
Ghana commercial Bank Limited, Email:dr.fritzgockel510@yahoo.es
for the final processing and release of your fund.

Mr. Jorg Frieden
Executive Director.
for: World Bank.

Note:Send your reply to:
Dr.Fritz Gockel,
Ghana commercial Bank Limited,
Email: dr.fritzgockel510@yahoo.es
For:final processing and release of your fund.

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