The Bankers Association of Namibia (BAN) wishes to inform the Namibian public about scams currently doing the rounds in Namibia. Ian Leyenaar , chairman of BAN and CEO of First National Bank of Namibia said: “We know that many of these scams are not new, yet people still seem to fall prey to them and we, therefore, wish to again highlight a number of the more common scams with the help of the media. BAN will issue media statements over the next few weeks explaining different types of scams which are in circulation in the country and again request the public to be vigilant, not get caught out and to warn as many people as they can about these scams so that they do not fall prey to them”. The first scam Leyenaar referred to is the prize and lottery scam . “These are notifications, which arrive through the mail, by e-mail, or by an unsolicited telephone call and inform the targeted people that they have won a substantial prize (often for a competition they didn't enter). V