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, 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:     George Abufour <g_abufor5@yahoo.com.ve> Reply-to:     gabufour74@yahoo.com Subject:     Very Important Date:     Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:25:04 -0800 (PST) (21:25 EST) ¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo! Ahora puedes escribirme a:g_abufor5@yahoo.com.ve - Hello dear, I am very sorry if I have invaded into your tight schedule, my name is Mr. George Abufour I work with Communal Development Bank of Ghana as an accountant and remittance officer. My bank was established for rural and district development not necessarily for the maximization of profit which made it less popular in Ghana. Its unpopularity created an avenue for the politician to hide and transfer their money abroad through the bank. I contacted you for a particular fund (£5,000,000.00) that was deposited in our bank by the late Minister of Finance and Economic Planning (Late Mr. Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu) who died on the 25ht of september 2008 in South Africa on a medical check up. He deposited the money with no next of kin or beneficiary in an anticipation of transferring the money abroad shortly before he died, and no one is aware of this deposit except me. I will want you to provide an oversea account where I can transfer the money to access to it, it is praticaly risk free transaction. You will get 25% of the total money as soon as it is transferred to the account you provided. If you don't want the business kindly forget that I ever contacted you, I stole nobody's money rather it is money stolen from the government and the one who stole the money is dead. I am only trying to utilize an opportunity. Thanks Mr. George Abufour   [ 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.

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!

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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