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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "can i trust you?" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Dr korman kwuis <kwui-00013@msn.com>
Reply-To: <dr.korman@web2mail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:18:24 +0000
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU?



FROM THE DESK OF
Dr KORMAN KUWIS
BRANCH MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
KUMASI BRANCH GHANA.

Hello Dear,

My
name is Dr Korman kuis, I am the branch manager of the International
Commercial Bank Kumasi branch Ghana. I got your information during my
search through the Internet and I know this may come to you as a sock.
I am 47years of age and married with 3 lovely kids and a wife. It may
interest you to hear that I am a Man of peace and I don't ant problem,
but I do not know how you will feel about this because you may have
double mind. But I am telling you that this is real and you are not
going to regret after doing this transaction with me. I only hope that
we can assist each other.But if you don't want this business offer
kindly forget it and I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction
that will benefit both of us, as the regional manager of the
International Commercial Bank; it is my duty to send in a financial
report to my head office in the capital city (Accra-Ghana) at the end
of each year. On the course of the last year 2008 end of last year
report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Five
million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar [$5. 750.000.00] which
my head office is not aware of it and will never be aware of. I have
since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As
an official of the bank I can not be directly connected to this fund,
so this informed me of contacting you for us to work, so that you can
assist and receive this fund into your bank account for us to SHARE.
Mean While you will have 40% of the total fund, Note there are
practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I
need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund
who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order
the transfer to your designated bank account.

If
you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much
as soon as I receive your response I will give you details on how we
can achieve it successfully.

Best Regards
Dr Korman kuwis. CAN I TRUST YOU?

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