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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: Amanda Adissa <doronmansaray@gmail.com>
Reply-To: amanda12345k@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:31:39 -0700
Subject: Good-Day to you


From: Ms. Amanda Adissa
Account/Auditing Department
UBA Bank Ltd- Accra
Ghana.

Hello Dear
I am Ms. Amanda Adissa, I am a staff of UBA Bank Ltd (Ghana). I am pleased
to get across to you for a very urgent and confidential business proposal
which I believe will profit both of us after completion. I contacting you
after a careful thought that you might be capable of handling this top
secret business transaction, which I explained below. I need your urgent
assistance to claim and transfer the sum of ($15Million) immediately to
your account deposited by one of our late customers Mr. Andreas Schranner
Md for years.

Andreas Schranner Md, was a German property magnate who died long side with
his entire family, his wife Maria, daughter Andréa Erich, her husband
Christian, and their children Katharina and Maximilian, all died in Plane
Crash, which crashed on Monday,25th July, 2000 by CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight
AF4590].See the website:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm). this
fund has been dormant (in-active) for years in our bank here without
anybody coming for it and now I decided to use this as an opportunity to
enrich myself by associating with you to claim the fund and have it
transferred to your account. with the new Republic of Ghana financial laws,
if the funds are not claimed by any one or his family relations, the money
will be mark as an abandoned fund and will go into Govt treasury as an
abandoned fund, this is the reason why I decided to contact you to
negociate with me to stand as the next of kin to the deceased and
beneficiary of the funds so that my Bank will release the fund to you as
the nearest person as all attempts to trace his relatives were fruitless.

My position here as an account officer requires me to investigate which l
did and discovered that Mr. Andreas Schranner did not declare any next of
kin or relation in all his official bank deposit documents in my bank and
according to the Republic of Ghana financial Law, the money will revert to
the ownership of the Ghana government treasure if nobody applies to claim
the fund. To avoid this money being sent to the Ghana Govt treasure account
as unclaimed funds, I decided to seek your quick assistance to stand as the
next of kin so that this amount would be released in your name as the next
of kin and paid into your account, therefore, if you would be interested to
handle this confidential transaction with me, I will give you more detail.I
agreed to share 40% for you and 55% for me and my family if you agree to
help me execute the business while 5% is for any the expense we may incure
during the transaction, so, if you are interested in this proposal, kindly
reply me back immediately. keep this proposal as a top secret or delete it
if you are not interested at all.

I look forward to hear from you.

Yours Sincerely,
Ms.Amanda

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