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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "b.addo2@terra.es" <b.addo2@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:22:00 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Best Regards,


Best Regards,

My name is Mr. Benjamin Addo, I am the Branch Manager of the International Commercial Bank Tema Branch, Accra-Ghana, I got your information during my search through the Internet. I am 47years of age and married with 3 lovely kids.

It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problems, I only hope we can assist each other. If you don't want this business offer kindly forget it, as I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the Branch Manager of the International Commercial Bank, Tema Branch, it is my duty to send in a Financial Report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each year.

In the course of the last year 2007 end of the year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the Manager made excess profit of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars [US$3,500,000.00] which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since placed this fund in a SUNDRY ESCROW CALL ACCOUNT (SUNDRY ESCROW CALL ACCOUNT is a special type of bank account where funds without a beneficiary are deposited for a specified period of time before the fund is confiscated by the bank management).

As an officer of the bank I cannot be directly linked to this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work together so that you can assist me and receive this fund into your bank account in your country for us to SHARE.

While you will have 45% of the total fund, and you keep 55% for me in your bank account till I join you in your country for the sharing/investment of my own share of the fund, I will appreciate it very much.

As soon as I receive your response I will give more details on how we can achieve it successfully.

Regards,
Mr. Benjamin Addo.
Mobile: +233248358979.






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