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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "million us 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.
  • sadiqabbasicb_gh@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR. SADIQ ABBAS" <sadiqabbasicbgh@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sadiqabbasicb_gh2@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 01:14:31 +0000
Subject: Thanks.

From: Mr. Sadiq Abbas,
International Commercial Bank Limited,
Ghana West Africa.

Dear Sir/Madam,
I got your contact during my search on the Internet while
searching for an honest person, But before I can move forward let me
explain myself.
My name is Mr. Sadiq Abbas,
The regional manager of International Commercial Bank,
Mokola Branch, Ghana. I am a Ghanaian by birth,
39 years of age and married with three children.
I decided to contact you to invest in your country.
Although I am not comfortable to send this proposal to
you because i have never met you face to face before,
but I am too sure that this is not Scam
because you have access to confirm, provided you did
not let my Bank know the source of your information. I
have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit
both of us. As the regional manager of the bank, it
is my duty to send financial reports to my head office
in the capital city of Accra-Ghana when i realized this huge amount of
money.
On the course of the last year 2005 end of the year's report, I
discovered
that my branch, in which I am the manager, made fourteen million us
dollars.
($14,000,000.00) Of which my head office is not aware
and will never be aware of it. I have since then PLACED
this fund in an ESCROW CALL ACCOUNT without a
beneficiary. As the regional manager of the bank, I
cannot be directly connected to this Money thus, I am
impelled to request for your assistance to receive this
money into your bank account.
I intend to part 25% of this fund to you while 75%
shall be for me and two officers who will assist me
move the fund to your account. I do need to assure
you that there are no risks involved in this Business.
It is going to be a Bank-to-Bank transfer. All I need
from you is to stand as the original depositor of this
fund. If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your
timely response and then we shall discuss on how you
will keep our share.
If my conditions interest you, please do contact me so that
I can make arrangement for you to come down to Ghana and have
a face to face discussions with me in the Bank, before we proceeds on
the next step of action.

Please do contact me with email:- sadiqabbasicb_gh@yahoo.com
With regards,
Mr. Sadiq Abbas.

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