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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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Fraud email example:

From: Chris Mba <cs10mb@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <cs.mbaa@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:10:58 +0000
Subject: I AWAIT YOUR REPLY ASAP



Dear Sir, I am Mr.Chris Mba, a manager with international commercial bank here in Ghana West Africa, my branch made excess profit of $26,750.000.00 during the last fiscal year, which I placed on Non-Resident account without a beneficiary in our bank since i have already submitted 2006 approved end of the year report to our head office. In essence i need a trustworthy foreigner whom will stand as the original depositor of this fund, so that the fund will be transferred to his company or private account immediately. I will use my position to influence this project in other to expedite the transfer by our bank head office. I intend to part with 30% of this fund to you as gratification while 70% shall be for me. This transaction is purely legal and practically no risks involve, it will be a bank-to-bank transfer. I await your positive reply for more details and the next step to follow.Best regards, Mr.Chris Mba
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