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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: David Green <undpagent@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 06:11:56 +0100
Subject: My Dear beloved Friend,

My Dear beloved Friend,

My name is Mr. David Green I work in the credit and accounts Department of
Agricultural Development Bank, Ghana Ltd. I write you this proposal with
due respect, trust and humility; this is in Respect of a foreign customer
account holder with our bank, who died in a brief illness last two year
ending.

Sir, since the death of this our Customer, who was a gold trade miner here
in Ghana, I have kept a close watch of his account records and since then
nobody has ever come to claim or withdrawn the money from his a/c as next
of kin to the late gold miner that had three million, one hundred and
twenty thousand united state dollars (US$3,120,000.00) in his sundry fixed
deposit account. At this point his Banking information are still with me
considering my position as his personal accounting officer, but as a worker
of this Bank and a Ghanaian citizen, I cannot directly claim, or withdraw
this funds, so my contacting you Based on the reason that nobody has come
forward to claim the deposit, I hereby ask for your cooperation in using
your name as the next of kin to the beneficiary to send these funds out to
a foreign offshore bank a/c in your country.

What is required of you is only to send an application letter to the Bank
director with information I will provide to you officially. Laying claims,
and transfer of the deposit funds as next of kin to your destination Bank
account, I am ready to negotiate the mode of sharing with you.

I will visit your country for my own share, after successful transfer of
the funds. I will not fail to bring to your notice, that this transaction
is 100% hitch-free and that there is absolutely no risk involve. All I
require is your honest co-operation, a guarantee of your sincerity to
enable us conclude this deal. However the nature of this transaction
demands that you have to keep it absolutely confidential.

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