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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: Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd <ghanaembassyturkey@gmail.com>
Reply-To: gcbbranchmanager@yandex.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 17:22:16 +0000
Subject: Good day my dear

Hello Dear,
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is
by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 100%
legitimate. Though I know a transaction of this magnitude can make any
one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that this is
strictly legitimate with full assurance that all will be successful at
the end of this transaction.
With that being said, let me start first by introducing myself
properly to you, as this may seem surprise by receiving this letter
from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us. My
name is Frank Coster, a branch manager of Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd,
Aflao branch and an account manager of our late customer by the name
engineer Georg Hang, an engineer from Germany who died in a plane
crash along with his family in July 2000. Please read more on this
website: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm) by copying and
paste on your web search page.
My purpose of contacting you is for you to help secure the funds left
behind by my late client that valued at USD$ 11,500,000.00, which we
found your name as his next of kin prior to our auditing and your
contact inquiry from our Chamber of Commerce and Industry. This is to
avoid the funds being confiscated or declared unserviceable by our
Bank Vault where the funds are momentarily safeguarded after his
death. Our bank has issued to cooperate with you, hence I have
contacted you, and as it may interest you to know, the said funds will
be credited into online banking, which we can establish one for you
and the funds in question will be credited therein and an unlimited
ATM premium black debit/creditcard, which allows you access for
instant withdrawal, online purchase & bill payments worldwide will be
issued to you, to enable you have full access to your funds both
online and via your ATM card.

If the above payment option will be of a good service to you kindly
indicate upon your response and we shall attach our online banking
form to you to complete and send back to us. We advise that you
expedite action to enable us establish your online and complete your
card loading process and commence your DHL delivery as soon as
possible. We advise that you expedite action as soon as you get this
message, as your ATM Card & ATM Pin code process need to be completed
soonest. And if you wish to receive the above funds via bank to bank
wire transfer, kindly indicate also upon your response and we shall
send you our wire transfer request form, for you to complete and send
back to us to proceed with your wire transfer.

Sequel to this notification, we'll need you to reconfirm the following
details when contacting us and I shall send you his contract execution
certificate as the origin of the funds, as well as change of
beneficiary, which is to be issued out in your name.

Customer's fullname if has been changed_____________________

Customer's home or office mailing address if has been moved________________

Customer's cell number if has been changed__________________




Yours respectfully,

Bank Manager: Frank Coster
Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd (GCB)
P. O. BOX AF 12, Aflao, Ghana 2531119
Telephone: +233 557787265
Website: www.gcbbank.com.gh
Email: gcbbranchmanager@yandex.com

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