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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. Essien Ashley" <talk2essienashley8@gmail.com>
Reply-To: talk2essienashley@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 18:04:30 +0100
Subject: Profound Felicitation from Mr. Ashley

*Mr. Essien Ashley*
*Branch Manager*
*Standard Chartered Bank*
*Madina Branch*
*Accra , Ghana*
*Tel:+233 545 311 417*


* Esteemed
Compliments,*

*I anticipate that you read this mail quickly and let me know your opinion
or willingness on this classified information that I will release to you.*

*Firstly, I am a happily married man with 3 kids and therefore I would not
want to jeopardize this opportunity to change my financial status that will
give my family a secured future.*

*I am Mr. Essien Ashley, the branch manager of the Standard Chartered Bank
Of Ghana, Madina Branch Accra. I got your information during my search
through the Internet. I am 48 years of age and married with 3 lovely kids.
It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want
problem, but I don't know how you will feel about this, but I am telling
you that this is real and you are not going to regret after doing this
transaction with me. I only hope we can assist each other. But If you don't
want this business offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you again.*

*I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as
the Regional manager of the Standard Chartered Bank Of Ghana, Madina Accra;
It is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the
capital city Accra-Ghana at the end of each year. On the course of the last
year 2008 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the
Manager made Five Million five Hundred Thousand Dollars [$5.5M Usd]which my
head office are not aware of and they will never be aware of, Nor must they
know that I am involved in this transaction.*

*I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any
beneficiary. As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to
this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you
can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE, while
you will have 50% of the total fund. Note there are practically no risk
involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand
claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our
branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated
bank account. If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate
it very much. As soon as I receive your kind response, I will give you
details on how we can achieve it successfully.Your contact telephone and
fax is highly needed for our fast communication,Please respond with the
below information's to my private email [talk2essienashley@hotmail.com
<talk2essienashley@hotmail.com>]*
*1. Your full name*
*2. contact address*
*3. Direct telephone number*
*4. Occupation*
*5. Marital status*
*6. Age*



*+233 545 311 417*
*Best Regards*

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