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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: "Dr.Kennedy Addo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kennedy.addo.icbgh5@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 04:23:05 -0700
Subject: From, Dr.Kennedy Addo

Attn Sir/Madam

I am Dr.Kennedy Addo a database engineer with International

Commercial Bank Ghana. I'm writing this short message in expectation

of an urgent reaction from you.

I am in charge of the database which contains record of our

transaction,customer details and Identity in one of our branches in

Accra Ghana and I'm contacting you because there's an urgent need for

a partner from your country for a quick business dealings with a 50/50

share agreement. We have a customer from the Germany by Name Dr.

Herning Schummacker who used our bank to apply for a contract here in

Ghana and the contract has been long concluded and his money paid but

the issue is that till date there has been no activities on the Bank

account. I have been monitoring the account since the past two years

and decided to make my research only to find out that the customer is

late. It is a secret only me knows and I am seeking to use it to my

advantage as it must definitely get to the hands of the top bosses

once they realize this.

The total amount is 28.75M(Twenty Eight Million Seven Hundred and

Fifty Thousand Euros). it was paid install-mentally and the good news

is that it is an online account so it can be accessed from anywhere in

the world.

Now what I want you to do if interested is to make yourself available

and I will edit the information on the account to your information

then the details of the account will be given to you. I will give the

contact details of the office to contact in our bank and you will

request for reactivation of the account, they will only have to go

through the account details which will match yours and approve your

request for reactivation.

When this is done, you will be able to transfer the funds in the

account to any account of your choice but that will be in Bits to

avoid restriction, I will also give you my account information as well

which you will have to transfer my part of the 50% immediately you

have received all the Money in your account in Germany or elsewhere,

Since i'd be in control of the activities that go on in the account ,

I will make sure we disburse the funds in it as agreed.

Waiting to hear from you.
Thanks.
Dr.Kennedy Addo
+233207961842

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