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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: "John Isah" <johnisah_acc@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 07:54:14 -0700
Subject: A PROPOSAL TO YOU

RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
# 16 Achimota Road,
Accra-Ghana.


Hello Dear,

Compliments Of The Day! Permit me to introduce myself to you. My name is Mr. John Isah,an Accountant working with International Commercial Bank,Accra-Ghana.I came to know about you in my private email chat for a reliable person/company to handle an important assingment on behalf of my Colleagues and myself.

Engr. Bob Anderson,a Chemical Engineer and an Oil Merchant here
in Ghana,has the sum of $4.8 million in our Bank.Unfortunately,he died in an accident in the oil field a long time ago.

Efforts had been made by the management of my corporation through their Embassy in Ghana here to contact any of the deceased
children, but to no avail,as we were made to understand he had no
children and has long divorced his wife, many years ago,leaving him a lonely man.Consequently has been so impossible to reach any of the relatives.The situation left for the Management is to declare the deceased account dormant and revert the ammount to trading on behalf of the interest of the corporation.
In order to avoid this development, my Colleagues and I now seek
your approval to have you stand as a distant relative to Engr. Bob Anderson,so that the money would be released to you.Please do not get us wrong,we are only being ambitious and making adequate use of the opportunity open to us.May I assure you that this is safe and 100%
risk-free, as we have taken care of all necessary modalities to ensure a hitch-free transfer of this fund.


I shall Apply for a leave as soon as the funds gets into your reliable account to come to your country for possible sharing and investment opportunity.I also have the authority of my partners involved in this assignment to propose that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction, sincerely and honestly,your
share would be 20% of the entire resulting fund.

I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me,as i look forward to receiving your response soonest through this my e-mail address or call my personal mobile number +233 243 847 908.

Best Regards,

Mr. John Isah.

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