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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:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "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.
  • mrlamtetteh1950@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Lamtey Tetteh" <lamtetteh06@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:46:14 +0000
Subject: Reply asap.

From: The Manager,
International Commercial Bank Ghana
First Light Branch
Accra, Ghana.

Greetings,

I got your contact during my search for a reliable,
trust worthy and honest person to introduce this
transfer project with. My name is Mr. Lamtey Tetteh. I
am the manager of the International Commercial Bank
Ghana, First Light Branch Accra. I am a Ghanaian
married with three lovely kids.

I am writing to solicit your assistance in the noble
transfer of US$5,500,000:00. 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 last Year report for the year
2006 to my Head Office here in Accra and they will
never know of this Excess. I have since then, placed
this amount of US$5,500,000:00 (Five Million Five
hundred Thousand United States Dollars) on a SUSPENSE
ACCOUNT without a beneficiary.

As an officer 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 30% of this fund to you
while 70% shall be for me. I do need to stress that
there are practically no risk involved in this. It is
going to be a bank-to-bank transfer to your nominated
bank account anywhere you feel safer. All I need from
you is to stand as the original depositor of this
fund.

The reason I contacted you is to represent Late Mr.
ANDREAS SCHRANNER a German great industrialist and a
resident of Munich, who unfortunately lost his life
along with his entire families in the plane crash of
CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight AF4590] which crashed on 25TH
JULY, 2000.You can read more news about the crash on
visiting this site;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I will appreciate your timely response.

With regards,
Mr. Lamtey Tetteh.
mrlamtetteh1950@yahoo.com

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