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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: UN Ghana <nicolas.fardel@utbm.fr>
Reply-To: UN Ghana <unghana@foxmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 02:11:48 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Important Information !






am General Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. I am mailing you in respect of the present development going on here in my country GHANA. I decided to contact you after much investigation which was carried out by the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) and also with the Ghana Police Service, in order to make sure that our country is free from those fraudulent activities, which is going on here in Africa and for our country to also bear a good name.

The Airport Authority detected some trunk boxes after much scanning process has been carried out , the authorities detected that the boxes contains fundsamounting to 10 million USD approximately , the only contact we found on the selaed boxes was your email ID , they were being smuggled into the country by foreign Personnel who were on transit from United Kingdom . These men were trying to enter the country with the trunk boxes, when the airport authority detected that these boxes contains some huge amount of United State Dollars. After much investigation we found out that these men were among those spoiling the good name of Africa. They opened up to us that they actually worked with a Diplomatic Courier company before their dismissal and used the opportunity to perpetuate their crimes, they told us that the funds inside the boxes was mearnt for the onwer of the email we are contacting , but now they planned to turn back and decided to take the money all to themselves out of the country. We later found out during the investigation that was carried out, these men are truly members of a well established organization in the United Kingdom,

As I write you this mail now, the two(2) men that were caught are now in the custody of the Ghana Police Service over here in our country Ghana, while we are trying to track the others left, because they have proved to us that they belong to one organization. That is why we have to reach you by your mail address that was tagged in the boxes, so we can make arrangement on the delivery of the recovered boxes by a United Nation Diplomatic Personnel.

Please you are to provide this below information's..

A: FULL NAMES:

C: DIRECT CONTACT PHONE NUMBER:

This information will be required, by the authorities in Ghana to draft the new change of ownership in your name as the rightful owner of the funds in our custody and also to verify the information given to us because the documentations covering the boxes have been tampered on.


Contact name : George Martinez
Contact Email: unghana@foxmail.com
Regards,
General Kofi Atta Annan

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