419 scam: "GHANA"<customercaservice@yahoo.com> TRANSFER OF ACCRUED US$ 3 MILLION INTEREST INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "inheritance funds" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "(ecowas)" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- ecobank_ghana@megamail.pt (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "GHANA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <paulolds@neu.com.cn>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:04:04 -0800
Subject: TRANSFER OF ACCRUED US$ 3 MILLION INTEREST INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

From: ECO BANK ACCRA GHANA
African Regional Head Office
International/Foreign Banking & Remittance Department.
Accra Ghana
Tell. +233 2496 24711
Fax +233 21821045
Email: paulolds@neu.com.cn
Website/URL: www.ecobank.com
Contact Person: Dr. Paul Olds
Email: paulolds@neu.com.cn
Direct: +233 2496 24711
9TH JAN. 2010

Dear Beneficiary
RE: SWIFT TRANSFER OF US$ 3 MILLION INTEREST INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

Your over -due contract/inheritance fund was brought to our bank from Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Foreign Contractor/inheritance Payment Panel, which is made of the following countries: Ghana, Togo, Republic of Benin, Senegal, Nigeria, Ivory-coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Cameroon, Mali, etc.

Knowing that ECOWAS are indebted to pay your unpaid contract or inheritance fund in West African countries due to one problem or the other that were encountered on the process of paying/transferring your fund. Your fund was recalled back to the World Bank treasury for those periods.

For the period of time, your money was in World Bank, and it generated an interest of US$ 3 Million, which we considered your long suffering as one of the West African Countries contractors/beneficiaries that have not received his/her payment and we have decided to pay you via Telegraphic Wire Transfer (TT) or as you may wish for all your outstanding contract/inheritance funds together with the interest of US$ 3 million to your account.

Be advised to expedite action urgently to ensure the swift transfer of your over-due contract/inheritance fund into your bank account, because the BANK OF GHANA (BOG) wants the accrued interest to be paid to them, but we refused because of the instruction we received from the International monitoring fund (IMF) and United Nations Monitoring Unit.

Note that if the Bank of Ghana (BOG) officials find out that your accrued interest funds is still outstanding in our bank they will like to recall back these fund into Federal Reserve Treasury (FRT) as an Escrow account and unclaimed funds to the Government treasury. Heed to reconfirm your identification( your full name, country of Origin, age, marital status and occupation), then your telephone and fax number for easy communication with your milling address to ensure immediate transfer of these funds as scheduled without any further impediments.

It is deemed necessary you facilitate swift transfer of these funds into your account, because the (BOG) auditors do come to our bank to cross-check our file and our financial updates.

We await your response to this email address (ecobank_ghana@megamail.pt ) for more clarification.

Best Regards,
Dr. Paul Olds
Head of International/Foreign Banking & Remittance Department.
ECO Bank Accra Ghana.
Tell: +233-2496 24711

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