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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • charlesadila3@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Charles Adila" <cadila60@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: charlesadila3@excite.com
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:09:20 +0000
Subject: Important

Hello friend,

Please don`t take this as a junk letter-it is real.

My name is Mr Charles Adila, an auditor in one of the commercial Banks in
Ghana.

I am writing to solicit your urgent assistance to transfer the sum of
US$5,760,000.00 to your account. This funds is the excess of what my Branch,
in which i was the head of the team made as profit during the last year
Auditing. I have already submitted an approved end of the year report for
the year 2006 to our head office here in Accra-Ghana and they will never
know of this excess.

I placed this amount of $5,760,000.00 on the bank`s pool account without a
beneficiary. As an employee in the Bank i cannot be directly connected to
the money that is why i am contacting you to assist in receiving the funds
into your bank account in your country, so that both of us can share the
funds.

This transaction is going to be a Bank-to-Bank transfer and I need you to
stand as the original depositor and beneficiary of the funds.

If you accept this offer, i will appreciate you send to me your personal
phone and fax numbers through this email address: charlesadila3@excite.com
or you call me on my private telephone number +233 209 320587, for more
details on the modalities of the transaction.

I wait for your prompt response.

Regards,

Charles Adila.

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