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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: =?UTF-8?B?zpXOpM6VzpU=?= <info@etee.gr>
Reply-To: rbert34@outlook.com
Date: 12 Jul 2016 00:43:23 -0700
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED TO THIS BENEFICIAL PROPOSAL

Dear Friend,

With due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose I
make this contact with you as I believe that you can be of great
assistance to me. My name is Sir Robert Marshal Kwame from Accra
Ghana, West Africa. Presently i work in the Bank as telex
manager. I have been searching for your contact since you left
our country some years ago .I do not know whether this is your
correct email address or not because I only used your name
initials to search for your country address book in the internet
.In case you are not the person I am supposed to contact , please
see this as a confidential message and do not reveal it to
another person but if you are not the intended receiver, do let
me know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal
below because it is top secret.

I am about to retire from active Bank service to start a new life
but I am skeptical to reveal this particular secret to a stranger
. You must assure me that everything will be handled
confidentially because we are not going to suffer again in life.
It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African
Politicians as well as some ministers here in my country used our
bank to Launder money overseas through the help of their
Political advisers.Most of the funds which they transferred out
of the shores of Africa was gold and cotton that was supposed to
have been used to develop the country and continent.Their
Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to
foreign accounts so i also used the opportunity to divert part of
the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how
much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers
were being closed after transfer.

I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the politicians and when I
discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy
act, I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank
files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much
for them to control. They laundered over $300,000,000,00(Three
hundred million) united states Dollars during the process .As I
am sending this message to you, I was able to divert more than
Eight million five hundred thousand Dollars ($8.5m) to an escrow
account belonging to no one in the bank before their present
denomination and dismissal from office. The bank is anxious now
to know who is the beneficiary to the funds because they have
made a lot of profits with the funds.

Almost all of the politicians are no longer using our bank to
transfer funds overseas. The $8.5m has been lying waste but I
don't want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds
to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the
receiver. The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you
.There is no one coming to ask you about the funds because I
secured everything.I only want you to assist me by providing a
bank account where the funds can be transferred. You are not to
face any difficulties or legal implications as I am going to
handle the transfer personally and professionally. If you are
capable of receiving the funds, do let me know immediately to
enable me give you a detailed information
on what to do.

For me, I have not stolen the money from anyone because the other
people that took the whole money did not face any problems. This
is my chance also to grab my own but you must keep the details of
the funds secret to avoid leakages as no one in the bank knows
about the funds.

Please supply me with your Full names,occupation,country of
origin,account information's.I shall intimate you on what to do
when I get your confirmation and acceptance.If you are capable of
being my trusted associate, do declare your consent to me.

Waiting for your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Robert Marshal Kwame
robertmarshal247@outlook.com
+233263748921

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