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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.Stephen Otoo" <nit.nit101@vip.citiz.net>
Reply-To: "Mr.Stephen Otoo" <stephenotoo37@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 02:19:03 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Dear Friend,



Dear Friend,

Greetings to you and your family, my name are Mr. Stephen Otoo, The current Auditor of a bank here in Accra , Ghana , West Africa . I have a transaction of US$7.5 Million dollars for transferring into your home bank account for our mutual benefits and i need your total and 100% cooperation and assistance to realize this task. Further details about the fund, its source and whom will stand as a business partner to consulting .enterprise so that my bank can transfer this fund into your receiving bank account immediately as I have your positive response. You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially as I am assuring you that all your details required for this transaction are all safe and secure. We will never lack again in life if we can join hands together for making this deal a success.

It has been over 9 years now that in my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$7.500.000 (seven million Five hundred thousand US dollars) In an account belongs to consulting enterprise in our country Ghana that political part sign a contact with him and move huge amount of Funds into their various overseas counterparts bank accounts through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of the West Africa were realized from material consultants, these are the funds meant for the development of our country Ghana and their various Nations being taken away for their greedy and selfish ambition.

Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transferring it into foreign accounts, so I also took the opportunity to diverted part of these funds, hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transactions were being closed after each transfer. I as the major Account Officer to most of those politicians and the then Foreign Remittance Dept Director of the bank, when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy invents, I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one ever cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control. They laundered over US$964 Million Dollars during the process.

As I am sending you this message, I have the ability to transfer the diverted Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7.5 M) into you own bank account abroad from an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who his business partner to consulting enterprise to this fund is because they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It is more than Nine years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas as most of the have died and the rest are no more in power.

The US$7.5 Million Dollars has been lying fallow and I don't want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver. The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you with expenses. There is no one coming to ask you any question whatsoever about the funds because I secured everything. Further details shall be mailed to you if only you show any sign of seriousness and interest.

Email: stephenotoo37@yahoo.com

Best Regard,
Mr. Stephen Otoo








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