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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: "Ms.Joy.Kofour" <mravidkofour88@gmail.com>
Reply-To: joyamuz@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:12:18 +0100
Subject: THANKS

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*Dear Friend,My name is Ms.Joy Kofour . I am the regional manager of
Standard Chartered Bank of Ghana Takoradi Branch in the western region of
Ghana. I got your information on a recent bank conference with other East
African countries held in Pretoria the capital city of South Africa.I write
you this proposal in good faith, I am a woman of peace. I have packaged a
financial transaction that will benefit you and I,as the regional manager
of the Standard Chartered Bank it is my duty to send in a financial report
to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each business
year.On the course of the year 2012 business report, I discovered that my
branch in which I am the manager made Three Million Seven hundred and
thirty thousand united state dollars ($3,730,000.00) which my head office
arenot aware of and will never be aware of.I have placed this funds on what
we call ESCROW CALL ACCOUNT with no beneficiary. As an officer of this bank
I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you
is to assist me receive this money in your bank account and get 35% of the
total funds as commission.There are practically no risks involved, it will
be a bank-to-bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as
the original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch
so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank
account.Thanking you in advance for your kind and urgent response, more so
for keeping our proposal to your self.FULL
NAME...........ADDRESS.............AGE.................SEX.................OCCUPATION..........MARITAL
STATUS......TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER......Best regards,Ms.Joy.Kofour *

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