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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • okyere.bright@personal.ro (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "O. B. (THE MANAGER)" <fambl_ghana@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 19:25:06 +0100
Subject: FROM: THE MANAGER (INVESTMENT PARTNER WANTED)

Greetings,

I am Mr. Okyere Bright a banker by profession, I am the
branch manager in charge of one of our banks here in Accra Ghana.For the
sack of confidentiality of this business i would not want to disclose my bank to
you unless we agree to save my job.This fund is the excess of what my
branch in which I am the manager made as profit during the last year.

I have already submitted an approved end of the year report for the year

2005 to my head office here in Accra and they will never know of this
excess. I have since then placed this amount in a suspence account. I want

to know if your private or corporate bank account has the capacity to

contain the sum of Three Million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$3.5 Million) Dollars.



I intend to transfer this fund out of my branch office if you can provide an account. I will like you to contact me so that we can work out the modalities of wiring the money out. You can contact me as quickly as possible on my private E-mail address: okyere.bright@personal.ro



You and i shall agree on a percentage favourable to both parties. Thank you very much and hope to hear from you very soon.

Best Regards,
MR.OKYERE BRIGHT.

Anti-fraud resources:

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