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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: "kofi kawme" <kofi_kawme_ghan@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:06:45 +0000
Subject: Get Back to Me

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Kofi Kwame the general auditor International Commercial Bank Ghana
Limited. I will go straight to the point of my mail to you and I do hope you
will view it as a serious and an opportunity for us both.

There is this floating fund, which is to the tune of Seven Million, six
hundred thousand American Dollars (7,600,000.00 USD), which has been
floating in an account here since 2000 after the death of the true owner of
the funds. Late Mr. Morris Thompson, an American who was a private
businessman.

He unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight
261, which crashed on January 31st 2000,including his wife and only
daughter. You can read more about the crash on visiting these sites below.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list I just came across his
file again when I was auditing all the credit Account in International
commercial bank Ghana limited and I found out that not for once has anybody
ever come on behalf of the Late Mr. Morris Thompson as his next of kin to
claim the funds.

Hence I have been monitoring this account since I discovered this
information. In this case I have concluded to contact you, if you will be
willing to execute this transaction with me, then I will instruct you on how
to claim or stand as the next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson, so
that the funds could be reverted to your overseas A/C, that is if only you
will co-operate with me and not to betray me at the end.

As soon as I confirm your interest and co-operation I will give you the
guidelines on how you can transact with the bank for the approval of the
funds to your account.

As soon as everything is been put into place for the transfer I will apply
for an annual leave to obtain a visa to travel to your country for my share
of the funds.

The sharing ratio of the funds will be 50% for me, 40% for you and the
remaining 10% will be for expenses we will incurred during the transaction.

I thank you for your understanding and I look forward to a favorable
response.

Best Regards,

Kofi Kwame

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