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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: Victor Asante <victorasante55@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:30:20 +0100
Subject: ATM CARD

Hello,

I am the Regional Manager of a Bank in Ghana, west Africa sub Region
and I deposited the sum of US$1,200,000.00(US$1.2M) to single payment
structure/ (ATM CARD) and this fund came as result of last year end of
annual report which was excess with over US$1,200,000.00 after the
original fund has been declared to the authority and I deposited the
remaining fund in a Single Payment structure and the method of
transfer will be through ATM Electronics to reduces cost/levy.

I deem it right to source for someone who could stand as the depositor
of the fund to allow our head office transfer the fund to his/her
account.

The sharing mode is 50/50 since i am directly involved.

As the regional Manager of the Bank I have all the details of the fund
and can as well support in the transfer without any bridge of law of
the federal republic of Ghana

If you are interested contact me for further details.

Regards

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