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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: ope joseph <ope_oj@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 14:09:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: How are you?


Hello Dear .
I am writing you this mail which I know and believe by faith that it must surely find you in good condition of health well, My name is Ayomide Joseph and I am the regional manager of the ALLIED TRUST BANK GHANA LIMITED,I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us,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 ending of year 2005 report, I discovered that my branch in which i am the manager made four million and twenty five thousand dollar] which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this funds 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 and receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE.Note there are practically no risk involved this transaction is 100%
risk free and legally binded, 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 my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.kinly e mail me back so that i can give you my head office detail e mail address to contact them.

Yours Ayomide Joseph.

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