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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: "Edward Martins" <eddymart02@msn.com>
Reply-To: eddymart02@aim.com
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:08:05 +0000
Subject: MY OFFER TO YOU,PLEASE WRITE BACK!

FROM THE DESK OF MR.EDWARD MARTINS
Phone: +233-243-222195
Tel: +233-22-209825
Tel: +233-22-209826

Good day,

My name is MR. EDWARD MARTINS, I am the regional manager of International
Commercial Bank of Ghana ltd, Tema branch in the western region of Ghana I
write you this proposal in good faith; I am 42 years old married with two
lovely kids I am a devoted christian and a man of peace I have packaged a
financial transaction that will benefit you and I, as the regional manager
of the International Commercial Bank of Ghana ltd,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 business year. On the course of the last year 2004 business
report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Eight
million Nine hundred and ten thousand United State Dollars($8,910,000)which
my head office is not aware of and will never be aware of.

I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account with no
beneficiary. As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to
this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this money
in your bank account and get 20% of the total funds as commission. There are
practically no risks involved, the transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law,it
will be simply a bank-to-bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand
claim as the original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my
branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your signated bank
account under few working days.

If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much as you are the
first and the only person, I am contacting for this transaction.My private
phone number is +233-243-222195 call me or send me mail as soon as you
receive this message if you think we can work together so that we can go
over the details. Thank you in advance and May God bless you and your
family.

Yours truly
MR. EDWARD MARTINS

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