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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 Kwame" <davidkwame70@indiatimes.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: davidkwame74@indiatimes.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:08:44 -0800
Subject: From Gold Coast

ECOWASBANK LTD.
37 High Street, Accra,
Ghana, West Africa.

My name is Mr. David Kwame, the Manager, Credit and Foreign Bills of
ECOWASBANK LTD .I am writing in respect of a foreign
customer of my bank with account number D14-A55-096/utb/t who perished in a
plane crash [Ethiopian airline 961] with the whole passengers aboard.

Since the demise of this our customer. I have personally watched with keen
interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has
come to claim his funds of USDollar 28.5 m, [twenty-eight million five
hundred thousand united states dollars] which has been with my branch for a
very long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the
Next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the banking
ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than Nine years, because
money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after this period.
Inview of this I got your contact through a search on the Internet .I
shall give you 40% of the total sum.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free
and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund
transfer can be finalized within five banking days, after you apply to the
bank as arelation to the deceased.

When you receive this letter. Kindly send me e-mail signifying
Your decision including your private telephone/ fax numbers for quick
communication.

Respectfully submitted,

MR.David Kwame
Manager, Credit and Foreign Bills

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