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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • dr.jonathanowusu_ecobankltd@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DR JONATHAN OWUSU" <janowu@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dr.jonathanowusu_ecobankltd@yahoo.es
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:16:14 -0600
Subject: confidential proposal




ECO BANK OF GHANA
RING ROAD BRANCH,
19, SEVENTH AVE,RIDGE WEST
PMB GPO ACCRA.
ACCRA, GHANA.
Dr.JONATHAN OWUSU
CREDIT ACCOUNTS OFFICER

Let me start by introducing myself. I am Dr.Jonathan Owusus, credit Accounts
officer of the Eco Bank LTD. Ring RD Branch,Accra, Ghana. I gotyour contact
from the World Trade Center (WTC) Regional office Accra,Ghana.Although the
details of my intention was not made known to them.Actually i listed your
name amongst four other names and prayed over them and i decided to contact
you directly.I have a concealed business suggestion for you.Before the year
2005 bomb blast that took place in United Kingdom our client General.Ibrahim
Moussa who was with the Iraq forces and also business man made a numbered
fixed deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of Twenty Five millions
United State Dollars only in my branch.
Upon maturity several notice was sent to him. Again after the bomb blast
another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later
find out that the General and his family had been killed during the bomb
blast that hit their home.

After further investigation it was also discovered that Gen. Ibrahim Moussa
did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper
work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at
my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank.

So, Twenty Five millions United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and
no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that
according to the laws of my country at the expiration of 2 years the funds
will revert to the ownership of the Ghana Government if nobody applies to
claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will
like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Gen. Ibrahim Moussa
so that you will be able to receive his funds.

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall
come out successful. I have contacted an attorney that will prepare the
necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to Gen.Ibrahim
Moussa, all that is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me
with your Full Names and Address so that the attorney can commence his job.

After you have been made the next of kin, the attorney will also file in for
claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval and letter of
probate in your favor for the movement of the funds to an account that will
be provided by you.There is no risk involved at all in this matter as we are
going to adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all the
necessary documents. Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all
matters concerning this issue.
Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated bank account we shall
share in the ratio of 70% for me, 25% for you and 5% for any expenses
incurred during the course of this operation. Should you be interested
please send me your private phone and fax numbers for easy communication and
I will provide you with more details of this operation.Your earliest
response to this letter will be appreciated.
please contact me on my private email address below ;
dr.jonathanowusu_ecobankltd@yahoo.es

Best Regards,
Dr.JONATHAN OWUSU
Credit Account Officer
ECO BANK LTD.

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