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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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Fraud email example:

From: GHANA ICB BANK <bankghanaicb@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: GHANA ICB BANK <bankghana_icb@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:57:14 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Compliment my good friend,


 From the Desk of Mr. Michael Robert Hanlon Director of International commercial Bank Limited, Ghana (I.C.B.) Meridian House, Ring Road Central, Private Mail Bag No. 16, Accra North, Accra, Ghana,
E-mail: bankghana_icb@yahoo.cm

Compliment my good friend,

I am contacting you concerning a customer and an abandoned huge amount of money placed under our banks management years ago, I contacted you independently of my investigation and no one is informed of this communication and I ational would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you and me and the family in future.

I am Mr. Michael Robert Hanlon, Chairman/Independent Director International commercial Bank Limited, Ghana (I.C.B.) was appointed to the Board of ICB Financial Group Holdings AG, the holding company of the ICB Banking Group since 7 March 2007, I am also a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee. I has a total of 44 years commercial banking experience, most of which was in the retail area.

I spent 34 years with Barclays Bank Plc in the UK where I held a number of Senior Management and Senior Executive appointments, including Regional Director for the Bank’s retail banking in Central London. Later, I joined the Raiffeisen Banking Group of Austria as Managing Director for retail banking at the Bank’s Polish subsidiary, Raiffeisen Bank Polksa SA, where I was responsible for the creation and development of a retail banking capability.

I Joined the Islamic Bank of Britain in April 2003 as Managing Director where I had the responsibility of creating the very first Sharia compliant retail banking business in the UK and Western Europe. I retired from the Bank in 2006. An Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, I regularly speak at international conferences. I am married with two adult children. I enjoy travel, art, music, cycling and swimming.

In my office I discovered an abandoned sum of thirty three million two hundred thousand us dollars ($33.200.000.00 us Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our late foreign customer (Mr. Abdul Ahmed Mohammed Wahab from your country) who died along with his entire family on November 1999 in a plane crash.

This money has been dormant for years in our Bank without claim, and I don't want the money to go into the Ghana Reserve Bank account as an abandoned fund. So this is the reason why I contacted you to present as the relative of the depository so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer (Mr. Abdul Ahmed Mohammed Wahab from your country).

we shall split the cash between our self upon the confirmation of the money into your account, I am ready to offer you 35% of the total fund and 60% for me while 5% will be set aside for any expenses might occur during the transaction.

Please I would like you to keep this transfer as a top secret between me and you to avoid eye brow. I promise you that I will direct you on how this money will be successfully paid in your name as the next of kin to late Mr. Abdul Ahmed Mohammed Wahab from your country. Upon receipt of your reply, I will give you full details on how we can proceed for the claim and executed the money to your bank account in your country. Kindly send me this information below to have trust in you that you would not seat on the money or betrayed me immediately the money is fully transferred to your account.

I cannot stand in the forefront of this transaction because of my position here as the Director of my bank, that is why I have come to you, for assistance be rest assured that this project involve no risk to you, upon the receipt of your acceptance mail me, I will like you to provide me with the following details bellow: to my private e-mail addresses:    (bankghana_icb@yahoo.cm) or call me on my cell phone: +233266137759).

1) Your full names: ...................
2) Your age: ........................
3) Your full address............
3) Your marital status...........
4) Your occupation/Profession:
5) Your company name.................
6) Your direct telephone number.....
7) Your fax number....................
8) Your country of origin........... ...
9) Your present location/country.......
10 Your religion.........................

Then I shall furnish you with due process of concluding this transaction without any delay. Please discard this message if you are not interested. One Passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with anybody, if you have any reasons to reject this offer, please and please destroy this message as any Leakage of this information will be too bad for me at my work place, as the Chairman / Independent Director International commercial Bank Limited, Ghana (I.C.B.).

Thanks for your kind Understanding.

Mr. Michael Robert Hanlon,
Chairman/Independent Director International commercial Bank Limited, Ghana (I.C.B.)

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