The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, I can 100% guarantee that YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     philip owusu <philipowusu0@rocketmail.com> Reply-To:     philipowusu1@yahoo.com Subject:     VERY URGENT AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE................... Date:     Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:53:09 -0700 (PDT) (20:53 EDT) I have a new email address! You can now email me at: philipowusu0@rocketmail.com - From:philipowusuInternational Commercial Bank ,Manager,First Light Branch,Accra, Ghana.Hello,Pardon me for not having the pleasure of knowing your mindset before making this offer to you and it is utterly confidential and genuine by virtue of its nature.I write to solicit your assistance in this fund transfer deal involving US$ 18.5M.This fund has been stashed out of the excess profit made last year by my office where i worked in Ghana as the branch manager. I have already submitted an approved end-of-the-year report for the year 2007 to my head office here in Accra-Ghana and they will never know of this excess.I have since then,placed this amount on a Non-Investment Account without a beneficiary.Upon your response,I will configure your name on our database as holder of the Non-Investment Account.I will then guide you on how to apply to my head office for the Account Closure/bank-to-bank remittance of the funds to your designated bank account.If you concur with this proposal,I intend for you to retain 30%of the funds while 70%shall be for me.Kindly contact me for more information my private line is With Regards,philipowusu   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters.

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary/commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust/diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam e-mail published on this website, the solution is simple. Don't send me spam.