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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: Mark Owen <mark@sanyo-corp.com>
Reply-To: drpatrickk848@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:19:27 +0100
Subject: Project Investment" From Mark



--
Hello

My Name is Mark Owen, I was the Ex Ghana minister of interior 2016. I
would like to seek your permission to present to you my financial
Proposal that might interest you.

My purpose of connecting you as a credible Individual with wealth of
experience in the areas of Entrepreneur, Fund Management and Investments
is to partner with me in securing some funds abroad for business
investment and safe keeping.

I was able to deposit some kickback money US$1 Billion emanated from
award of contracts awarded to Russian and German companies for supply of
arms and security equipment for Ghana internal and external security.
The fund is kept in a security vault with a commercial bank in Ghana
pending when I will find a trustworthy person to move out the fund from
Ghana to oversee a bank account for business investment.

The need to contact you arose from the fact that the present elected
government have now decided to crack down on past immediate government
functionaries and trying to trace all the funds that was made through
contract awards and other mouth watering deals during our tenure in the
government office, if they succeed in tracing this fund to me, they will
seize it and thereby incapacitating my life time opportunities.

Nevertheless, If you accept to partner with me on this transaction, you
will retain 20% of the US$1 Billion while Net Profits from any
investment established will be shared 50/50. This transaction requires
collective responsibilities whereby each party has a role to play in
order to make our dream come to reality.

If this offer interests you, please respond for full details.

Sincerely,
Mr. Mark Owen.

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