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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:
  • "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.
  • philkwaku@aol.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Phillip Kwaku" <philkwaku@excite.com>
Reply-To: philkwaku@cooltoad.com
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:09:44 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Good Business Offer











To Your Kind Attention,
My name is Mr Phillip Kwaku I work with the SG-SSB Bank of Ghana as the Regional manager, Takoradi Branch, in the Western Region of Ghana.I got your information during a Bankers’ Quarterly Forum with other African Countries, held in Lome, the capital city of Togo, in West Africa. I write you this letter in good faith.
I am 52 years old with three kids. I have packaged a transaction that will be of mutual benefit to us. As the branch manager of SG-SSB Bank of Ghana, it is my duty to send a financial report to my head office in the capital city, Accra, at the end of each financial year. Following the release of the last year financial report, (2006), I discovered that my branch made two million, five hundred thousand United States Dollars ($2,500,000.00); from the transactions accruing to the account of the Inland Revenue Service (IRS) which my head office will never be aware of because it was not detected by the audit department from the head office.
I have diverted the funds into what the bank call Escrow Call Account with no beneficiary. As the branch manager of this bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my contacting you is to assist me receive the funds in your bank account in your country and get 30% of the total funds as your benefit.If you agree to assist me, I will start the processing by programing your full information in the computer system here in Takoradi branch as an Escrow Call Account holder/depositor in SG-SSB Bank of Ghana.
All I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund and if you are interested in this deal please feel free to reply through this Email:philkwaku@aol.co.uk
Thanks for your co-operation in advance.
Yours truly,
Phillip Kwaku



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