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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: willam mensah <mensahwillam_9@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mensahwillam@yahoo.dk
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:17:28 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Your attention is needed


wDear Friend

Happy new year and compliment of the season to you.My name is willam mensah,I am the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank of Ghana Takoradi in the Western region of Ghana.I got your information during my search through the Internet.I am 44years
of age and married with three 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 International Commercial Bank,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 year 2007 end of
year report, I discovered that my branch in which i am the manager
made [10million USdollars] 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 cannot be directly connected to this
money, so this is the reason why i am contacting you for us to work so that
you can assist in receiving 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.willam mensah

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