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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: Francis Dakura <dakuraf@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:26:49 -0700
Subject: Your Urgent Response is Needed

Dear Partner,

I got your contact while searching for a reliable and well trusted
person who can assist me to handle this deal smoothly and safely. My
name is Mr. Francis Dakura and I'm the General Manager of Access Bank
Limited Ghana. I hope I can trust you in what I am about to disclose
to you??? I discovered an over-due and unclaimed fund of a whopping
sum of US$15.400.000.00. (Fifteen million four hundred thousand United
States Dollars) and it was under a DORMANT account without any
beneficiary as an excess profits made from my head office since two
years ago. After careful investigations I found out that there is no
next of kin to this fund and with my position in the Bank as the
branch manager I'm the only person who is aware of this situation
concerning the fund and we can engage this fund into profitable and
good investments Abroad.

Now what I want you to do is to stand as the depositor or beneficiary
of this fund and I will provide all the necessary legal documents to
legitimize the claim in your name. I will arrange everything from our
data base system stating clearly that your are the original depositor
of this fund in which I will issue you the official Deposit Receipt in
your name and prepare other legal and legitimate documents from a law
court stating as such that you are the main depositor of this fund
whereby you shall contact the bank directly and request for the
immediate transfer of this fund to your designated bank account in
your country.

I am willing to share this fund with you after execution at the ratio
of 60%-40% and I will want you to send my own share to an account
abroad which I will be providing to you after the deal is done or I
will come to meet you after the transfer. I will handle all expenses
of obtaining all the necessary legal documentations from the Ghana
High Court of Justice and you will contact the bank directly with them
requesting for the transfer of the fund without letting them know
about my involvement in this deal until the fund hits your designated
bank account. The funds will be transferred to your account via bank
to bank swift instant wire transfer, you will have to handle all the
legal transfer requirements from the our bank until the fund hits your
account in your country of origin as well.

Also I wish to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free and
no problem involved during and after the transfer of the fund to your
designated bank account because all the legal and legitimate documents
pertaining to the fund will be obtained from a law court. Please get
back to me immediately if you are in agreement to all I have conveyed
to you and re-confirm to me your direct telephone Number, Full Names,
Home Address, Age, Occupation, so that I can effect the change of
ownership of the said fund to your name and I will send you a copy of
the change of ownership certificate along with other legal and
legitimate documents which you will be using to claim the fund from
the bank as the rightful legal beneficiary and I will send you mine in
return as well.

For security reasons you have to keep this as a top-most secret and
confidential within you until you receive the fund safely. You can get
back to me for more details concerning this transaction.

Thanks for your kind cooperation.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Francis Dakura
Access Bank (Ltd)
Accra, Ghana.

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