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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: "Joseph Kamuta" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <josephkamuta909@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 06:56:14 -0700
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS MESSAGE

Attention Sir/Madam,

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.

Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at
the end of the day.

We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as
we have been reliably informed of its swiftness and confidentiality.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am PETER
MENSAH, a Manager at the Energy Bank, Accra-GHANA. I came to know of you
in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very
confidential transaction which involves the transfer of a huge sum of
money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.

A foreigner, Late Engineer William Adams, an oil Merchant, miner
/contractor with the Government of Ghana, until his death three years ago
in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the Energy Bank,
Accra-GHANA, and had a closing balance of USD$51.5M (Fifty-One Million,
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now
unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available foreign next
of kin.

Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Energy Bank to get in touch
with any of late Engr. William Adams's next of kin (he had no known wife
and children) that the management can contact. Under the influence of our
chairman, board of directors, Mr. kwasi Appeal, that an arrangement for
the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMED "

In order to avert this monies to be declared unclaimed myself and some of
my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have you
stand as late Engr.WILLIAMS ADAM’S next of kin so that the
fund,USD$51.5M, would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank
account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents and proves to enable
you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are assuring you a
100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 30% of the total amount.
10% has been set aside for expenses, while the rest would be for me and my
colleagues for our involvement and we wish to invest our shares in real
estate /oil business in your country.

If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of the
trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me
immediately via my e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential
telephone and e-mail, so that can that we can commence procedure for the
transfer.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated

Co-operation.

Regards

JOSEPH KAMUTA

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