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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: "Lt Gen. Kenneth Minimah" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ltkennethminimah012@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 23:43:53 -0000
Subject: Urgent and Important Notice.

Hello,


I am Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah 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 also with the Ghana Police Service, in order to
make sure that our country is free from those fraudulent activities,
which are going on here in Africa and for our country to also bear a
good name.

The Airport Authority detected some trunk boxes after been scanned, the
authorities detected that the boxes contains funds and Gold on your name
and email that has been tempered on, they were been smuggled into the
country by foreign Personnel who were on transit from UK. 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 the men, spoiling the good name of Africa. They opened up to us
that, they actually work with a Lotto company before their dismissal and
used the opportunity to perpetuate their crimes, they told us that the
funds inside the boxes was won by 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 out, these men
are truly members of a well established organization in UK.

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 email 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.

Your urgent 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 you are to
provide this below information's..

Your Full Names:
Your Contact Address:
Your Direct Phone Number:
Your County:
Your Passport or ID Card (for verification)

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.
Please to remind you, that this doesn't belongs to scammers or any act of
fraudulent on internet. I will give more information to you as i await
your response immediately.

Please don't read this and ignore it,

Honest Regards,
Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah
Chief of Army Presidential Special Initiative,Republic Of Ghana
Reply to this email only: ltkennethminimah012@gmail.com

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