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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:
  • "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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: ben kwaku <benkwaku132@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:19:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PLEASE, REPLY ASAP.


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

Hi,

This message might meet you in utmost surprise however it's just my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me contact you for this transaction. 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. Ben Kwaku; I am the manager of the International Commercial Bank Ghana , First Light Branch Accra .

I seek your co-operation in transferring the left over funds US$5.5M of one of my bank deceased client DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY who died in the charter plane which crashed in the Kenyan city of Sumburu along with his family on 21st July, 2003. You can confirm the genuine of the deceased death by clicking on this website: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

I am inviting you for a business deal because as an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance as a foreigner 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.

I will appreciate your timely response, thank you.

Sincerely,
Ben Kwaku.

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