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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "michael boateng" <michaelandboateng697@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: michaelandboateng1981@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:57:41 +0100
Subject: ABOUT LATE MR.HERBERT CLARKE

Dear Friend,
It is with great honour and priviledge that I write you.I am Mr.Michael
Boateng,Age:34 Years and a bank staff of the treasury
department,International commercial bank Ltd,Accra,Ghana.I humbly solicit
for your confidentiality in what I have to tell you as my good findout in my
department.
A national of your country,late MR. HERBERT CLARKE, was a Gold
Investor/Contractor with Ghana Trade and Investment Corporation and he died
in October 2003 as a result of his diagnosed cancer.He had a closing balance
of $9, 375,640 (Nine Million,Three Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand,Six
Hundred and Forty USD) in his bank account .Since his death,the bank has
been expecting a next of kin to him to come and claim his money in the bank
but up till this time of writing no next-of-kin of relative of the deceased
has come forward to claim his money with us. However,as an insider,I will
guide you on how you proceed to enable you claim the money as your
inheritance fund and it will be transferred into your account.
I have kept out his treasury file safely so that I can release all his
banking information to you so that you can claim the money as your
inheritance fund and it will be transferred into your account.
On the comfirmation of the money in your bank account,I shall proceed to
provide you with a bank account where you will send my own share of the
funds according to our agreement.

Regards,
Michael Boateng

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