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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: "Mr.Kwame Ansah" <kwame@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kwame@web-mail.com.ar
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:25:48 -0700
Subject: Urgent Attention

CONFIDENTIAL

ATTENTION: MD/CEO,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

First I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being
utterly CONFIDENTIAL. I am Mr.KWame Ansah, a Director
with BROAD BANK OF GHANA (BBOG).
I came to know of you in my private
Search for a reliable and reputable person to handle
this confidential transaction which involves the
transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign the
Account requiring maximum confidence.

THE PROPOSITION

A foreigner, late Engr. THOMAS CLARK BAKER, a foreign
Investor with the Ghanaian Government until his death
Four years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at
GHANA COMMERCIAL BANK ACCRA, and had a
Closing balance USD$6.5M (SIX MILLION,
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
which the bank now expects to be claimed by Mr. THOMAS
next-of-kin or alliteratively be donated to a discredited Trust Fund
for arms and ammunition at a military war college here in GHANA
Fervent valuable effort have been made by the BROAD BANK OF GHANA (BBOG),
to get in touch with any of the Baker’s family proved
abortive till date.

It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to
locate Late Engr. THOMAS CLARK BAKER, next-of-kin (he had no wife or
Children) that the management under the influence of our Chairman,
{Elder KOFFI SAM KOFFI and some members of the board of
Directors that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared
“UNCLAIMED” and subsequently be
Donated to Trust fund Arms and Ammunition to
further enhance the course of war in Africa and the
World in general.

In order to avert this negative development, some of
my trusted colleagues and I now seek your permission
to have you stand as next-of-kin to late Engr. Thomas Clark
So that the funds USD$6.5M would be released and paid
into your bank account as next-of-kin. All documents and
proofs to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked
out and more so we are assuring you of a 100% risk free
involvement. Your share stays while the rest would be for
myself and my colleagues for investment purposes in your
company/Country.


Mr.Kwame Ansah
(BBOG)

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