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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. Asareh Kofi" <kkfiasare@gmail.com>
Reply-To: kkffasareh2@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:39:47 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Dear friend, how are you today?




>From Mr Asare Kofi
Auditing and Account
Bank Manager
Accra Ghana


Attention my new friend

I am a staff in one of the bank in my country. I am writing following an
opportunity in my office that will be of benefit to both of us. In my
department we discovered an abandoned escrow account that contain the sum
of $6.5 million, (Six million five hundred thousand Us Dollars) in a fix
deposit account that belongs to one of our foreign customers, a citizen of
your country who unfortunately lost his life in the Tsunami
disaster,including his wife and Two of his daughters. Since we got
information about his death, we have been expecting his partner or
relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as partner or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking MOU agreement with the deceased.

Unfortunately I learned that his supposed next of kin died along with him
in the knowledge of this account behind for the claim. It is therefore
upon this discovery that I now decided to make the deal with you and make
sure we bring it out as the partner of beneficiary of the deposited fund
for onwards transfer and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don't want this money to go back into Bank treasure account
as unclaimed.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such account remained
after five years the money will be transferred into banking treasury
account as unclaimed property. We will share the percentage equal, in any
expenses we did will be deduct from the money before sharing. Your share
will be 50% and my own will be the same after we have remove the money for
our expenses this is to ensure that no party feel cheated.

Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
deposited funds to your account has been finalized. I will discuss more in
details when I receive your response. Please if you are interested, I will
want you to forward to me with your data which include,

Your full name,........................
Postal Address,........................
Direct phone Number,........................
Occupation,........................
Date of birth. ........................

You should reach me in my private email: kofasar@gmail.com

Best regards,
Mr Asare Kofi
Direct email: kofasar@gmail.com

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