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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: grant moore <grantmoore100@gmail.com>
Reply-To: gerdsmit101@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:24:21 +0100
Subject: Good-day Friend,

Good-day
Friend,
My name is Dr. John Kwame, I am the Branch manager of the Standard Charted
Bank of Ghana Kumasi branch Ghana. I got your information during my search
through the Internet. I am 48years of age and married with 3 lovely kids.
It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want a
problem. I only hope we can assist each other. But If you don't want this
business offer kindly forget it as I will naot contact you again.

I have packaged this financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as
the Branch manager of the Standard Charter Bank of Ghana; it is my duty to
send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city
Accra-Ghana at the end of each year. On the course of last year's 2018 end
of the year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager
made Five Million, five Hundred thousand dollar [5,500.000.00] which my
head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since
placed this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this money, so
this is why i am contacting you for us to work so that you can assist and
receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you will
have 30% of the total fund. Note there is practically no risk involved, it
will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand and claim as
the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so
that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much,
Also you can forward your private Telephone number for a speedy relation.
As soon as I receive your response I will give you details on how we can
achieve it successfully.

Best Regards,
Dr. John Kwame

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