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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: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:01:46 +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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