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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: robert mensan <mensanrobert@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 03:15:50 -0500
Subject: ASSISTANT

DR Robert Mensan
BRANCH MANAGER
GHANA INTERNATIONAL BANK
BRANCH GHANA.

My name is DR Robert Mensan I am the branch manager of the Ghana
International Bank branch Ghana. I am 59years old and married with 3 lovely
kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a Man of peace and I don't want
a problem, but I do not know how you will feel about this because you may
have a double mind. But I am telling you that this is real and you are not
going to regret doing this transaction with me. I only hope that we can
assist each other. But if you don't want this business offer kindly forget
it and I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as
the regional manager of the Ghana International Bank; 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. At the end of last year's report
2013 , I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Twelve
million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar [12, 750.000.00] which my
head office is not aware of it and will never be aware of. I have since
placed this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an official of the bank I can not be directly connected to this fund, so
this informed me of contacting you for us to work, so that you can assist
and receive this fund into your bank account for us to SHARE. Mean While
you will have 35% 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 response I will give you details on how we can
achieve it successfully.

Best Regards
DR Robert Mensan
BRANCH MANAGER
GHANA INTERNATIONAL BANK

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