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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: "kofi.kwabena1@gmail.com" <kofi.kwabena1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:09:28 +0000
Subject: MANAGER Barclays Bank of Ghana

MANAGER Barclays Bank of Ghana
PO Box 2949 High Street Accra Ghana,

Dear Valued Friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise, but you need not to
worry as I use this way to contact you, it is due to it is the only means
I can use to reach you confidentially as a foreigner to seek for your
assistance in this matter as the transaction need top secret that is the
reasons of contacting you through Email.I believe it is only a day that
people meet and become great friends and business partners.

I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business
proposal; I got your e-mail address through an internet yellow page web
directory and decided to contact you and ask for your assistance in this
urgent matter, requiring trust and confidentiality, I am Mr.Kofi Kwabena
the Branch manager, Barclays Bank of Ghana, married with Three children. I
am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry
out this business opportunity in my department,

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of five million three
hundred thousand United States dollars ($5.3 MILLION USA DOLLARS) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (Mr.Kurt Kuhle) from
Alexandra Egypt who died along with his family in Siber airline that
crashed into sea at Israel on 4th October 2001.

Since I got information about his death I have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless
somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as next of kin or relation to
the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and I don't want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed
bill. Am contacting you because our deceased customer is a foreigner and a
Ghanaian can not stand as a next of kin to foreign customer.

The banking guidelines stipulate that the fund should be transferred into
the bank treasury after 14 years if nobody is coming for the claim. I have
agreed that 50% of this money will be for you as foreign partner in respect
to the provision of your account for the transfer, and 50% would be for me,
after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage as indicated.

Please note that by the virtue of my position in the bank , I have worked
out the perfect modality as well as I shall provide the relevant
information' s for the successful claim and transfer of the funds into the
account that will be provided by you, I can not stand in the forefront of
this transaction because I work with the bank ,that is why I have come to
you for assistance, be rest assured that this project involve no risk to
you, upon the receipt of your acceptance mail ,I will like you to provide
me with the following details below to my private email :
kofi.kwabena1@gmail.com

(1) Your direct mobile/fax number.
(2) Your name and country resident address.
(3) Your private email.

Then I shall furnish you with due process of concluding this transaction
without any delay.

Waiting for your urgent response.

Regards
Mr.Kofi Kwabena

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