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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: Nicholas Tetteh <shanfu001@gmail.com>
Reply-To: nichtett@yandex.com
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:24:06 +0100
Subject: Re; Lets work together

From; Nicholas Tetteh

Dear Sir / Ma,
.
I am Mr. Nicholas Tetteh a staff of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
(GNPC) and a close associate of the Chief Operating Officer.

He has mandated me to transfer the sum of US$38 million recovered from
over-invoiced contracts involving the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
(GNPC) this sum emanated from an over-invoiced contract already executed
leaving the over-invoice balance of US$38,000,000.00.

I have made proper arrangements/documentation to transfer the balance which
is retained in a coded account of the (GNPC) with an offshore bank in
Europe. We are soliciting that you help us to receive the fund in trust.

We cannot complete this transaction smoothly without the participation of a
foreign partner who would provide an account where the funds could be
lodged. Since it is a contract payment, the funds must be remitted to a
foreign account. The remittance of the funds requires little documentation.

There is no risk involved on your part in this transaction since the Chief
Operating Officer and I have covered this transaction with adequate
contract and external credit documents from the beginning.

We have agreed that you will retain 30% of the entire US$38,000,000.00 for
your effort in this transaction, 65% for us partners here in GHANA and the
remaining 5% will be used for defrayal of incidental cost in the course of
this transfer. Please reply urgently as we expect that the transaction will
not take more than ten Working days. And please note that this transaction
must be top secret.

Best regard.

Nicholas Tetteh
For: Chief Operating Officer

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