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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: "Mrs.Juiana mensah" <juliana@ultimateemail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:02:39 +0000
Subject: Proposal For You $$$$

ATTN: Sir,
My name is Mrs.Juiana mensah, I am the Regional manager of Standard Chartered Bank,Kumasi branch in the western Region of Ghana.I am married with two lovely kids. I am a woman of peace and I don't want problems, I only hope you can assist me. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I, as the Regional manager of Standard Chartered 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 Business Year.On the course of the last year 2004 Business Report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made One million five hundred and twenty thousand US Dollars ($1,520,000.00) which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this fund on what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary. As an officer of this Bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you to assist me receive this money in your Bank account and get 30% of th
e total fund as commission though is negotiable. There are pratically no risk involved, it will be a Bank to Bank Transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the Original depositor of this funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated Bank account.if you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much.
My email is the above.
Reply me if you think we can work together so that we can go over the details,
Thank you in advance and may God bless.
Yours truly,
Mrs.Juiana Mensah.

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