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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)
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr George Owusu" <georgeowusu141@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: geggowusu44@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:40:36 +0000
Subject: Investment Proposal


Attn: Director/C.E.O
From The Desk of Mr. George Owusu
Telephone+233 249 309864.

Dear Trusting Friend, happy new year.
I pray that this email reaches you in the best of health. This letter may
come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not yet met. The
message could be strange but it's real if you pay some attention to it. I
want to notify you about it at least for the sake of your integrity.
In a brief introduction, I am the director of STANDARD SECURITY AND SERVICES
LIMITED ACCRA GHANA. I contacted you to assist me move my FUND out of here
to your personal or company’s bank account for investment. I have been
working with this security company for years now. Within this period I have
watched with meticulous precision how Africa heads of states and government
functionaries have been using our company to move huge amount of money USD,
POUNDS, in cash to their foreign partners. They bring in these CONSIGNMENTS
of cash and secretly declare the contents to us as jewelries, gold,
diamonds, precious stones, family treasures and vital documents. MOBUTU SESE
SECO OF ZIARE (DEAD), FODE SANKOY OF SIERRA LEONE, FELIX HOUPHET BOIGNY OF
COTE D'IVORE (DEAD, KANAN BEDIE OF COTE D' IVORE (ABIDJAN)etc. All these
peoples have more than hundred consignments deposited with our company.
Nobody will ever come for them because in most cases the certificate of
deposit are never available to anybody expect the depositors hence most of
them are dead I have moved some of the consignments to our office in Holland
and London. As soon as you are able to produce the secret information as
contained in the secret file of any consignment it will be released to you I
have finalized every arrangement for YOU to claim one the CONSIGNMENTS with
No:,1401 contained $15 MILLION USA DOLLARS . I will supply you all the
information about the consignment and all the documents which you will use
to claim it easily. You will only send an email to our security company
management request for the consignment, then I as the Director I will
complete all the underground arrangement to make sure the consignment is
released to you.

My dear , I only need you to agree to assist me then I will present your
name to our security company management as the new beneficiary of the
consignment with NO:1401 and I will also back it with all the documents
needed so that nobody in our office will question you or suspect your claim
as fake, The procedure is very simple and easy, I will send you the
documents for the consignment and you will send it back to our company
management by email attachment. And apply officially to the Director of
foreign operations of the company requesting for the release of your
consignment with No:, 1401. . My dear I assure that no risk is involve since
I am working with the company for years I have all the particulars of every
consignment and I will never make a single mistake. After the claim is done
both of us will share the total money 50 – 50. Please feel free to ask
questions if you have any. Please contact me back through email or telephone
number for us to proceed and conclude the deal immediately.
Best Regards,
George Owusu

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