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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: "michael boateng" <michaelandboatengb@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:03:01 +0100
Subject: Dear Andrews

Dear Andrews,

It is with great honour and priviledge that I write you.I am Mr.Michael
Boateng,AGE: 34 and a bank staff of the treasury department,INTERNATIONAL
COMMERCIAL BANK,ACCRA,GHANA which is one of Ghana's leading retail bank
withover 30 branches scattered across Ghana.I humbly solicit for your
confidentiality in what I have to tell you as my good findout in my
department.
Every five years,Ghanian banks transfer to itstreasury millions of dollars
of unclaimed deceased depositors funds in compliance with the banking laws
and guidelines, in majority of cases with referece to all retail banks in
Ghana, the money normally runs into several millions of dollars.A
national of your country,LATE MR.HERBERT ANDREWS,a Gold merchant/contractor
with Ghana Trade and Investment Corporation who had a permanent resident
permit in Ghana until his death in October 2003 as a result of his diagnosed
cancer.He had a closing balance of $9,375,640 .Since his death,thebank has
been expecting a next of kin to him to come and claim his money in the bank
but up till this time of writing no next-of-kin of relative of the deceased
has come forward to claim his money with us.Thus,I bent on searching through
the internet to see if I could locate any of
th deceased relatives and on one of such searches,I saw your email address
and I decided to seek your consent to act as next of kin to the deceased
since you bear the same last name with him. However,as an insider,I will
guide you on how you proceed to enable you claim the money as your
inheritance fund and it will be transferred into your account.The request
for you as Relative/next of kin in this transaction is occasioned by the
fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Ghanaian cannot stand in as
Relative to a foreigner.Please you must be confident in your correspondences
with the bank director in charge of foreign remittance as things progress.
On the comfirmation of the money in your bank account,I shall proceed on
applying for my annual leave to procure a visa so as to come to your country
to collect my own share of the money which I will invest in a profitable
business venture in your country and I will rely on your advice.

Regards,
Michael Boateng

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