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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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• 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.
  • government.secretariat@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Addo baku" <government.secretariat@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:56:10 -0700
Subject: From International Monetary Funds, Ground Force Accra Ghana,


NO, 28,
37 MILITARY ZION,
ACCRA GHANA,
TELEPHONE 00 233248966678,

International Monetary Funds, Ground Force Accra Ghana,
NATIONAL REVENUE SECRETARIAT AND VAT Project Service in collaboration with
OAU,

This is to notifies you that we are the people, who apprehend all your
Africa refuges funds gold dust, consignment boxes transaction right from
local and international,

You are just trying to still our international curacy million of dollars,
euro and pounds and gold away out of Africa without paying your revenue tax
to OAU or to any country state or local government secretariat,

We are here to contact you to register your refuge partners' funds transfer
pay fore about old and new funds transaction,

Here in national revenue secretariat we have local account in local banks
security were house that we are keep all foreign beneficiary money and
items,

Your total funds converted to euro is one billion euro and seven boxes of
gold,

For your information you are to pay tax of six thousand five hundreds euro
before all your treasures, funds, items can be acceptable to be release and
transfer to you by the International Monetary Funds, Ground Force Ghana,

This is were your senses become hindrances to your life since, we are no
longer slave you must pay the tax or hence you lose all your transaction in
Ghana for ever and ever,

PLEAE REPLY THIS EMAIL; government.secretariat@gmail.com,

Waiting to hear from you now,

Thanks,

Yours Faithful
Addo Baku,
C. L. O.

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