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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Stephen Parry" <steph2_parry_icb@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: steph3_parry_icb@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:20:34 -0700
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE

FROM THE DESK OF
MR STEPHEN PARRY
REGIONAL MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
KUMASI BRANCH GHANA.

HELLO DEAR,

My name is Stephen Parry, I am the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank kumasi branch Ghana. I got your information during my search through the Internet. I am 48years of age and married with 4 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problem,but i dont know how you will feel about this because you might feel that its scam yes there are many scammers. but am telling you that this is real and you are not going to regret after doing this transaction with me. 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-Ghana at the end of each year. On the course of the last year 2005 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Eight million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar [8,750.000.00] 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 40% 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 my 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,
Stephen Parry

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