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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: Kofi Koduah Sarpong <kkoduah.sarpong67@gmail.com>
Reply-To: koduah.sarpong@outlook.com
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 15:32:20 -0800
Subject: From Mr. Koduah Sarpong, Branch Manager First Atlantic Bank Please go
through and get back to me.

Hello:

I know this letter will come to you as a surprise as we have not met
before, nevertheless i am contacting you with genuine intentions, and
i hope to trust you with this opportunity which i explain below.

I am Mr. Koduah Sarpong, the branch Manager of First Atlantic Bank of Ghana

I discovered a dormant account worth of $16,651,000.00 (Sixteen
Million, Six Hundred and Fifty-One thousand United States Dollars)
from our late customer during our bank's annual account auditing for
the end of the year 2022.

In further investigation i discovered that the owner of the account is
a gold merchant (gold dealer) from Saudi Arabia his name is Ahmad
Saad.

Since the death of the deceased, nobody has operated in this account
till date and Based on our banking code of ethics if the account
remains dormant for a period of 10 years without no claims the fund
will be confiscate, is over 10years now the account has been dormant.

The last operation in this account was a withdrawal made by Mr. Ahmad
Saad on Thursday the 3nd of March 2011.

In this regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring
this money out of our bank to avoid our bank confiscating this fund.
Our sharing ratio will be 50% for you and 50% for me.

The transfer will be done through our corresponding bank in Hong Kong
( CMB WING LUNG Bank Hong Kong) I assure you, there is no single risk
involve I am the manager of this branch, all transaction ends on my
desk and as soon as the fund is transferred to you all the information
of this fund deposit will be wiped out from the system,

It will take just 5 bank working days we conclude this transaction,

If you are interested to work with me in this project, kindly get back
to me for more information and Guideline.

Please let’s continue on email till the fund is out of here.

Reply with this Email: koduah.sarpong@outlook.com


Best Regards,
Mr. Koduah Sarpong
Branch Manager
First Atlantic Bank
Ghana

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