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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Fraud email example:

From: "DAVID ANKRA" <bamaneger3@email.ro> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ankrad@excite.com
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:15:05 -0700
Subject: Message From David Ankra


Dear Sir,
My name is Mr. David Ankra.
I am the Eastern Region Branch Manager of the Barclays Bank of Ghana
Ltd, in West Africa.

I am contacting you on mutual trust as I do not want problems but just hope you can assist me in actualizing the under mentioned project.

I am in control of the sum of one million, eight hundred and fifty thousand
US dollars ($1,850,000.00) which was an excess of profit made by our Eastern Region Branch Office in the last quarter Financial Summery of the year 2003,The afore Mentioned amount I have been carefully placed in an Escrow Call Deposit Account with systematize procedures without declaring it to my executives.

Can I really trust you to hold this money for me until I arrive your country
and pick it up myself and you deduct 30% of the total money as your
commission if you accept my offer you can contact me immediately. via my personal email address (ankrad@excite.com)

All I need, is you to provide me with a good current bank account
where I can move this money through a laid down modalities. I will confidentially, give you all the information concerning the account and the date of deposit so that you can apply to the bank for the release of the money. There is practically no risk involved. It will be a bank-to-bank wire transfer. I hope you understand my situation.

Be rest assured that this transaction is absolutely risk free.
If you have any question regarding this proposal, feel free to ask

Thank you and God bless.

Yours truly,
Mr. David Ankra.

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