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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: "james lawman" <jameslawman20@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jameslawman21@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:17:27 -0800
Subject: URGENT REPLY

From:James Lawman
Manager
International Commercial Bank
Kanashi Branch
Ghana.
Attn:
My name is James Lawman, I am the regional manager of the
International Commercial Bank of Ghana kanashi in the
Western Region of Ghana. I got your information during my
search through the Internet. I am 44years of age and
married with 3 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear
that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problem, I only
hope we can assist each other. If you don't want this
business offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you
again.
I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit
both of us, as the regional manager of the International
Commercial Bank; it is my duty to send in a financial
report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the
end of each year. On the course of the last year 2004 end
of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am
the manager made one million five hundred and fifty
thousand dollars [1,550.000.00] which my head office are
not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since place
this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any
beneficiary.
As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected
to this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to
work so that you can assist receive this money into your
bank account for us to SHARE. While you will have 30% of
the total fund .Note there are practically no risk
involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from
you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this
fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head
office can order the transfer to your designated bank
account. If you accept this offer to work with me, I will
appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your response
I will details you on how we can achieve it successfully.
Best regards,
James Lawman

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