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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "the consignment " (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)
  • "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)
  • ",000,000" (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: Kofi Peprah <kofpeprahjnr8@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <kofi_peprahjnr@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:53:23 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam,



Dear Sir/Madam,


Please, may I ask for your patience to go through my story below and let me know if I will have your confidence to help me achieve the desired success of what I am going to disclose to you in this message? My name is Kofi Peprah Jnr , I am contacting you on behalf of my father Dr. Kwame Peprah, who is being incarcerated by the(NPP) ruling party of Republic of Ghana, my father is a politician under the platform of National Democratic Congress (NDC) executive committee. My father with two other members, Alhaji Ibrahim Adam former Minister of Food and Agriculture, George Sipah Yankey, former Director of the Legal Sector,Private and Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance, were sentence to various jail terms, by the current ruling party New Patriotic Party (NPP).
My aim of contacting you is to crave your indulgence to assist me in securing some funds abroad for safe keeping on behalf of my father,which he incidentally kept to finance the forth coming elections in 2008. Fortunately my father were able to deposit the money in a security company's vault here in Accra-Ghana pending when the fund would be needed,which he told the security company authorities that it was precious item belonging to his foreign business partners in abroad for safety of the money not to be tampered until when he will be ready to make use of it for his polictical programms.
The need to contact you arose from the fact that the present government is bringing down on the opposition and trying to trace all the funds that belong to them, which if they succeed in tracing this fund to my father, they will seize it and thereby incapacitating his campaign abilities. Here my father advised me to look for a foreigner that will be reliable and trustworthy to assist me to stand as my father's foreign business partner abroad whom my father made the deposit on his behalf, to claim the Consignment of money from the security company and ship it overseas for your safe keeping in other to avoid any trace from the ruling party in government.
All I need from you is an assurance that you can handle the amount involved Nine million United States dollars only (US$9,000,000.00) comfortably and that I can also trust you with this arrangement.
My father is promising 20% of the whole amount for any assistance, so please write me soon if you are capable of assisting me in doing this business so that I will update my father at the prison and get more details to give you.
I am not going to contact anybody else until I am satisfied that you are not going to be part of this project, please reply quick on willingness to enable me give you further details, since time is of essence.So let me have your detailed information such as,
Your name,Addresss,Sex and age,OccupationTelephone and fax numbers .
Also I want you to carefully read this websites bellow and understand more about my father and his colleagues.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/public_agenda/article.php?ID=1306http://fornessa.org/news_details.cfm?EmpID=534&departmentId=1http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=35755http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=14369http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=43577http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=105738http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=18623http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/5311.htmlhttp://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/politics/artikel.php?ID=110500
May God bless you and family.
Kofi Peprah Jnr.
N/B this correspondence should be confidential as my father demands
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