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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: "Mr. Carl Mensah" <carlmensah87@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:18:11 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: FROM:MR.CARL MENSAH ICB GHANA LTD


Hello


Please pardon me for not having the liberty of knowing your mindset
before writing you this letter without any formal introduction.My name
is Mr.Carl Mensah I am the present branch Manager of International Commercial Bank of Ghana LTD

I
write to solicit for your partnership in claiming of $15.million united
state dollars from an account at our Head Office . The aforementioned
fund $15.million usd is my share percentage from a Gold Mining project
that i helped financed, influentially.

Furthermore, as a Manager
in the bank, I am not allowed to be part of such a deal, because it's
against my company's professional practice policy. So I am compelled to
ask that you stand on my behalf and receive this fund into any account
that is solely controlled by you. I will compensate you with 20% of the
total amount involved as gratification for being my partner in the
transfer.

I want to re-assure you that this business is risk free
and you can send an empty account to receive the funds, provided that
the account is capable to receive incoming funds.

If you know
that you are capable to handle this on trust and can keep secret and
ready to take 20% Contact me urgently via email privately for further
details:

Yours Truly,

Mr.Carl. Mensah


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