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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: "MR. JAMES ODEH" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sam_fori1@naver.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:02:21 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION: HONORABLE BENEFICIARY

ATTENTION HONORABLE BENEFICIARY

Subject: CARD.

STATE INHERITANCE COMMITTEE IN CONJUNCTION WITH STANDARD CHARTERED BANK GHANA WHICH MUST BE TREATED VERY URGENT.

We received the letter this morning alongside the scan copy of the police officer in charge of this case that some individuals claim you are dead that is why you are not writing again and said you have instructed them to claim your fund and make it via bank to bank direct to there bank account.

Bank Name: BANK OF AMERICA
Bank Address: 2075 S. Victoria Ave Ventura, CA 93003
Bank Phone Number: 800 788-7000
Account Name: Mr. Allen Smith.
Type: Checking
ABA # 322271627
Acct # 1951204345
Amount: US$1.5 Million usd

Please get back to us now, and if we wait for 48hrs as instructed by the police and do not hear anything from you, we will have no choice than to forward the payment to them as you have instructed.

Meanwhile, We the State Inheritance Committee in conjunction with the Standard Bank Ghana is to officially inform you that ATM Visa Card number: 4323 7403 8289 7729 worth One Million Five Hundred Thousand ($1.5 Million USD) has been credited in your favor in bid to compensate you on your contract payment with the Federal Republic of Ghana since you are next on our payment file for the First part of this fiscal Year 2015 because we want to complete every past contractors payment between now and the next 10 working days time. We have instructed the card center to prepare and send you the ATM VISA CARD which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM MACHINE in the world.

Your personal identification is ATM- 7997. Contact me as the verification officer James Odeh (Mr.) with the following information bellow for proper immediate confirmation and verification processing of the Card:

1. FULL NAME_________________

2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER_________________

3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD TO(P.O BOX NOT ACCEPTABLE)_________________

4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION_________________

5. A COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION _________________

You are also required to send to the verification officer/agent a means of Identification which should be a scan copy of your Driver's License or International Passport for proper verification and authentication.

We shall be expecting to receive your information, For now you have to stop any further communication with anybody or office. On this regards, do not hesitate to contact Me (Mr James Odeh ) for more details and direction, and also please do update me if you receive any information from any Office or Anybody apart this Office.

Contact me with the email address: ( inheritancedpt1@hotmail.com ) for urgent attention.

Please get back to us now.

Regards

MR. JAMES ODEH
STATE INHERITANCE COMMITTEE

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