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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: Bishop Matthew <bishopmatthew200@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 22:01:11 -0700
Subject: Hello

Greetings,
With due respect to your personality and much sincerity of this purpose,
I make this contact to you as I believe that you can be of great
assistance to me. My name is Mr. Kwesi Kwame from Ghana,
West Africa. I am the telex manager of African Development Bank Group
(ADB) Ghana. Please see this as a confidential message and do not reveal
it to another person and let me know whether you can be of assistance
to me regarding my proposal below because it is top secret.

I am about to retire from active Banking service to start a new life
but I am skeptical to reveal this particular secret to anyone. You
must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because
we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now
that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder
money America, Europe and Asia countries through the help of
their Political advisers.

Most of the money they transferred out of Ghana were gold
and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop
Ghana. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts
before transferring to foreign accounts, so I also used the opportunity to
divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official
trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such
transfers were being closed after transfer. by then I acted as the Bank
Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they
were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I also cleaned some of
their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me
because the money was too much for them to control. They stole
and laundered over $5billion Dollars to unknown bank accounts
overseas during that time.

Before I send this letter to you, I have already diverted about
($15.5million Dollars) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the
bank. Now our bank is anxious to know who the beneficiary of the
$15.5million Dollars because our bank have made a lot of profits
with it. It is more than Eight years now the politicians are no longer
using
our bank to transfer funds overseas. The $15.5million Dollars has
been laying waste in our bank 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 (a foreigner). The money will be shared
60% for me and 40% for you. There is no one coming to ask you about
the funds because I secured everything. I only want you to assist me
to provide a reliable bank account where the $15.5million Dollars
will be transferred to you.

You are not to face any difficulties or legal implications as I am
going to handle the transfer personally. If you are capable of
receiving the funds, do let me know immediately to enable me give you
detailed information on what to do. For me, I have not stolen the
money from anyone because the other people that took the big money
did not face any problems. This is my chance to grab my own life
opportunity but you must keep the details of the funds secret to
avoid any leakage of information as no one in our bank knows about
this my plans.

Please get back to me if you are interested and capable to handle this
project, I shall intimate you on what to do immediately I receive your
confirmation and acceptance. If you are capable of being my trusted
partner, do declare your consent to me now. I am looking forward to hear
from you urgently for further information.

Note; Kindly reply me in this email ( ),

Thanks my best regards to you.

Mr. Kwesi Kwame.
Telex Manager
African Development Bank Group (ADB)
Ghana.

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