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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: stephen stephenparry <stephenparry02@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:11:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Best Regards



Mr.Stephen Parry
Branch Manager
Eco Bank Ghana
first-light Branch Ghana.


Attn: Sir,

My Name is Mr.Stephen Parry, I am the regional manager of the
Eco Bank Ghana kaneshie branch accra Ghana. I got your information during
my
search through the Internet. I am 44years 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
problem, I only hope we can assist each other. If you don't want this
business offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you again.
I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us,
as the
regional manager of the Eco Bank of Ghana; it is my duty to send in a
financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end
of
each year. On the course of the last two years 2005 end of year
report, I
discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Three million
seven
hundred fifty thousand dollars [3,750.000.00] which my head office are
not
aware of and will never be aware of. I have since place 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 informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist
receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you
will
have 30% of the total fund .Note there are practically no risk
involved, it
will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand 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.
As
soon as I receive your response I will details you on how we can
achieve it
successfully.
Best regards,
Mr.Stephen Parry.



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