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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: "Frank Mosco" <frankmosco@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:12:13 +0000
Subject: PLEASE YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEDEED URGENTLY!!

ATTEN:

GOOd Day,

I know this my letter will come to you so surprise, Before I continue, I
wish to introduce my self to you. I am Mr FRANK.M, A ghanain of 45 years
old, married with a wife and four children, Two boys and two girls. At
present, I am the branch manager of SG-SSB Bank,Takuradi branch Ghana. I
write to solicit your permission ,If you will sincerely and honoestly
accummodate the sum of $15,520,000 (fiften million, five Hundred and twenty
thousand) united states dollars only.

This fund came as a result of over marginal profit that was left in our
ledger book for the year 2004/2005 third quater accounting period. As such
, this amount has been floating in the ledger book without anybody claiming
it, as a matter of fact,
since I am the manager of this branch(Takuradi) I seek you kindly forward
to me your telephone and your full particulars,(Address) To enable me creat
an account file in your favour to transfer this fund to your overseas
account for disbursement as follows;
You we be entitle for 25% for your assistant, 10% will be maped out for
expense,
while 65% will be kept in your account pending the arrival of my wife in
your
country for the treatment of her breast cancer,i will not fail to intimate
you that due to our poor salary here, i could not be able to carryout her
breast cancer oparetions which cost a lot of money and with this, if you
could assist and this workout as I plan,she will then carryout the oparetion
in order to save her life for me, for this reason, i have taking this
action.

Please be informed that this transaction is risk free and as long as i am
going to monitor all paper works from table to table untill the transfer is
effected into your overseas account.

kindly acknowledge this my proposal, if accepted or not. I am waiting for
your favourable reply.

Yours faithfully

Mr. FRANK MOSCO,

(Branch Manager)

SG-SSB BANK TAKURADI

GHANA.

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