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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: Mrs Blessing Mensah <mensahmrsbless@att.net>
Reply-To: blessingmensah78@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 07:18:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: VERY VERY URGENT



The Regional Manager,

Standard Chartered Bank of Ghana,

Temale Branch.



Greetings to you dear,



My name is Blessing Mensah (Mrs), I am the regional manager of Standard

Chartered Bank of Ghana

Temale Branch. Am writing you this mail for something very important; I am

happily married with four

lovely kids. I have been a banker for almost 10 years.I have packaged a

financial transaction that

will benefit you and I, as the regional manager of my branch it is my duty

to send in a financial

report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each

business year.



On the course of the last year 2009 business report, I discovered that my

branch in which I am the

manager made Five million six hundred and twenty thousand united state

dollars ($5,620,000.00)USD.

I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account, this account

is strictly for

onward transfer, with no beneficiary.



As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money in

any way, so my aim of

contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your bank account and

get 40% of the total

funds as commission, while 60 percent comes back to me. I placed you on

40% because I believe this

business now belongs to the both of us, and your efforts and support is

highly going to be involved

as well. Up till date, no one has the knowledge of the $5,620,000.00USD

you are about to receive

in your bank account, and no one will ever know of it.



All you need to do is stand and claim as the original depositor and

beneficiary of the fund in my

branch so that my head office can order the transfer of the fund to your

designated bank account.

There are practically no risks involved, it will be a bank-to-bank

transfer.



>From the day you applied, within 6 days the money should have been

transferred and cleared in your

account if all things work out well. Then I will get back my 60% through

any means we find best to

do so.



Please note that all I need from you is your trust and sincerity as to

seeing this through.

am expecting your soonest reply as to enable us start doing something

about this immediately.



Thanks yours faithfully,

Mrs. Blessing Mensah.

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