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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: "Dr Johnson Yeboah" <yeboah1@email.ro> (may be fake)
Reply-To: johnson_yeboah1@excite.com
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:05:09 +0000
Subject: FROM Dr Johnson Yeboah

Dear Director,

My name is Dr Johnson Yeboah General
overseer of Contract Award Committee/Chairman in the
Electricity Company Of Ghana. (ECG) My colleagues have
assigned me to seek for assistance of a reliable
foreigner through whom we can transfer the sum of
Eight Million Usd Dollers,

which arose from the deliberate
over-inflated contract value for the General expansion
of the Akosonbu Dam Hydro Station through Electricity
Company Of Ghana (ECG.

The contract was awarded in 1998 during the
adminisration of Flight Lt.Jerry John Rawllings to a
foreign firm with the consideration of
10% commission agreement on the total contract. The
contract has been completed and the contractor has
long been paid.We are now left with this Eight
Million US Dollars Only (US$8milliom) representing
the 10% commission

Presently,the fund in question is floating in BOG's
account waitng for transfer. As a matter of fact,The
Current Political/Economic climate in this
country now creat an enabling atmosphere for execusion
of this porject.

Our contactman in the Ministry of Finance have given
us a go ahead advice to process the release of this
fund,

hence we have set in motion the machinery for
the take off of this transaction and further action
will commence immediately we hear from you.
We have agreed that after the transfer of the money
into your account, you shall be entitled to 30% of the
total amount transferred, while the
remaining 70% will be for I and my colleagues.

All we require is your willingness to co-operate and
assurance that our own share will be given to us when
this money is transferred. All necessary precautions
have been taken to ensure a no risk situation on the
sides of both parties and it is believed that the
conclusion of this transaction will not last more than
10 working days.

Please if this proposal is acceptable to you, or if
you have any questions, feel free to contact me
immediately on my private email address:(johnson_yeboah@excite.com) I will oblige
you with further

I am Truly Yours
Dr Johnson Yeboah.

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