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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: Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan <inspectormamohammedahassan12@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:58:17 -0800
Subject: Urgent


GHANA POLICE SERVICE - . G.P.S. HEADQUARTERS
INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE – . I.G.P.
P.O. Box 116, Police Headquarters,
E-Mail: inspectormamohammedahassan12@gmail.com
Telephone No. (+233)541 952 837,
Ghana Police Service, Good Citizen.

ATTENTION:

I am Inspector Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan of the Presidential Special
Initiative. 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 the Ghana Police Service, to make sure our country is free of
these fraudulent activities, which is going on here in Africa and for our
country to bear a good name.

The Airport Authority detected that trunk boxes after been scanned the
authorities detected that the boxes contains funds on your name and email
that has been tempered on, were been 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 men, spoiling the good name of Ghana in Africa .

They opened up to us that, they actually work with a Banking Financial
Organization,before their dismissal and used the opportunity to perpetuate
their crimes, they told us that the funds inside the boxes was to be
transferred to you, but now they planned to turn back on you and decided to
take the money all to themselves out of the country. We later found out on
the investigation that was carried that, these men are truly members of a
well established organization to act on their criminal activities.

As I write you this mail now, the three(3) 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 and name that was tagged in the boxes, so we can make
the arrangement on delivery of the recovered boxes by a United Nation
Diplomatic Personnel.

Your response will be very much appreciated as soon as you have received
this email. Thank you for your kind attention, for us to make sure our
beloved country Ghana , bears a good name.

Please in your reply include your

A: FULL NAMES
B: ADDRESS
C: DIRECT CONTACT PHONE NUMBER
D: SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR ANY RELEVANT
IDENTIFICATION PASSPORT.

As 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.

Regards,

Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan.

Ghana, I.G.P

Tel +233) 232 940 978

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