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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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.
  • j_kwame2008@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "jameskwame4@terra.es" <jameskwame4@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:16:25 +0100 (MET)
Subject: GOOD DAY


Dear Sir/ Madam

Naturally this letter will come to you as a surprise since we do not know each other, please permit me however to inform you that I am Mr.James Kwame, a staff of the Ministry of Finance and Economic planning here in Ghana.

At the risk of boasting, I wish that you understand that I am a top personal aid to the Minister and therefore, I am privy to several pieces of information. This aside, I am the secretary to the Contract payment committee.

Subsequent upon the recent debt relief granted by the G8 Nations to the Republic of Ghana, the Government under the leadership of his Excellency, President John A. Kufour, has decided to pay off all the accumulated back-log of contract debts owed to both local and foreign contractors.

However, some of these contract debts span from the regime of his excellence, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah down to the PNDC government of Flt. Lt. John J. Rawlings and to his NDC government days even to the first tenure of President
Kufour. To this effect, some of the contractors can no longer be traced as they have tried severally to receive their payment without success. Obviously, some may have died.

The proposal: I wish to implore you to come in as our partner to claim the sum of $185 Million United States Dollars which is payment due some contractors who built the Akosombo Hydro-electric dam. The contract was divided in 3 phases.
The civil contractors, the water engineers and the electrical engineering company. I understand that you may not know anything about this subject and you may not even be conversant with the procedure for building a dam. But do not worry as we have covered all the bases.

All we need to do is apply for an initial payment of 48 Million United States Dollars for the first phase of the contract. As soon as this is successfully transferred to your account, we will apply for the other balance. You do not need to worry about the original contractors. This has already been taken care of. We removed some of the files when we took them for review. All we have to do is replace them with your company details.

As soon as this is done, we shall approve your file for immediate payment. Once again, do not worry about this, it will be approved. We have estimated that it will take between 10 and 14 working days to complete this project.

Should you wish to participate, please email me, you may be worried about the legitimacy of this; you may also be worried about if it were found out. The answer is, do not worry, everything has been carefully thought of and planned. Should you have any questions of whatever nature, please do not hesitate to ask me.

By the way, you may be worried that this is a scam. There is no need for you to worry. Upon request, I can obtain and send to you, the official gazette approving the loan payment. I will even send u a copy of my Identification card and my international passport for your records.

We do sincerely hope to work this out with you. As regards to your commission, we propose a sharing ratio of 70/30. 70% for us and 30% for you. If you have any problems with this, please note that we are open to negotiations so long as they are reasonable.

Do accept heart felt good wishes as I look forward to your response. Until I hear from you, contact alternatively on this email address j_kwame2008@yahoo.com

regards,
Mr. James Kwame





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