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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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Fraud email example:

From: Mike Tetteh <miketetteh02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mr.miketetteh@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:15:14 +0000
Subject: Re: Hi




Hello,
Kindly take a few minutes in reading this and let me know your opinion/suggestion.
Recently, as I was working officially on old files in the bank records department, I discovered a resident account, which was opened in 2001 and was last operated in 2012. The account owner was a geologist by profession with the Kruger Gold Company here in Ghana.Unfortunately he died in 2013 and since then the account has not been operated. He does not have in our record either a next of keen or another signatory to the account that could possibly claim the money in his account. The said amount in his account is Ten Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars($10.200.000.00).I am contacting you to partner with me to enable me organize this transfer to your account with an assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country. I will destroy all the documents relating to this money leaving no trace of it. You can also come down to Ghana to discuss with me formally if you wish.
Be rest assured that you stand no risk of any kind as all the modalities for the transfer has been well perfected with my position.I count on your sense of confidentiality, as it is my desire that you keep this proposal to yourself.
After the transfer, you will get 35% of the total money, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for the expenses that will be incurred in the process of the transfer.
I will await for your timely response.
ThanksMike..

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