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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: "mr Ousmane" <ousmane_owu@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:54:00 -0500
Subject: urgent

Ousmane owusu
Manager International
Commercial Bank
First-light kaneshie
Branch Ghana.

My name is Mr ousmane Owusu, I am the Kaneshie branch manager of the International Commercial Bank of Ghana.
I got your information during my search through the Internet.
I am 39 years of age and married with 3 lovely kids.
It may interest you to hear that I am a Man of PEACE and don't want problem, I only hope we can assist each other.
If you don't want this business offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you again.
I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the regional manager of the
International Commercial Bank; it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each year.
On the course of the last year 2004 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Three Million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars
[3,750.000.00] which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.
As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this money, so this informed my
contacting you for us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you will have 30% 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 our 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 details you on how we can achieve it successfully.
Best regards

Mr Ousmane owusu

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