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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 eloho <eloho_stephen1967@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 13:45:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: respond urgent


From The Desk Of Dr.Stephen Eloho.
(Branch Manager)
International commercial Bank of Ghana
Accra,Ghana.


Good Day,
I
anticipate that you read this mail quickly and let me know your opinion
or willingness on this classified information that I will release to
you. Firstly, I am a happily married man with 2 kids and therefore I
would not want to jeopardize this opportunity to change my financial
status that will give my family a secured future.

I am Dr.Stephen
Eloho,Branch Manager with the International commercial Bank of Ghana. I
got your information during my search through the Internet. I am 48
years of
age and married with 2 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I
am a man of PEACE and don't want problem, but I don't know how you
will feel about
this, but I am telling you that this is real and you are not going to
regret after doing this transaction with me. I only hope we can assist
each other. But 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 a Branch Manager of the
International commercial bank Limited; It is my duty to send in a
financial report to my head office in the capital city at the end of
each year. On the course of the last years 2011 end of year report, I
discovered that my branch made Twenty one Million Eight Hundred and
Fifty Thousand Dollar [$21,850.000.00] which my head office are not
aware of and will never be aware of, Nor must they know that I am
involved in this transaction.

I have since place this fund into a
Non-Investment 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 40% 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 kind response, I
will give you details on how we can achieve it successfully.

Please contact me as soon as possible.

Regards,
Dr.Stephen Eloho

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