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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: "ms.vivian atta" <vivianatta2002@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23.17.00 +0200
Subject: We can achieve this.

Hello,


I am Ms.Vivian Atta,working with an Investment bank here in Ghana. I found your contact in web links site, I have a business which can profit two of us, if you accept to cooperate.
On March 10th 1999,a Sweden oil consultant Mr John Morgan made a fixed deposit of U$8,000,000.00 in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply, after a month I sent a reminder and finally I discovered from his contract Employer that Mr John Morgan died in a car accident.
I found out that he died without making a Will and all attempt to trace his next of kin was fruitless.
This sum of $8,000,000 USD is still in my bank. and the interest has been rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one has come forward to claim it.
consequently, my proposal is that you apply to my bank as a relation of late Mr.John Morgan, I have some documents which I will forward to you to resend it to my bank to prove that you are his relation, I also
have the Secret Banking Code which was issued by our bank to Mr John Morgan.
I will also like to hear from you how much percentage will you take at the successful end of the transaction.
Send me your Telephone numbers so that I have a word with you,

Please note that I will monitor this project very well and it is risk free because I am still working in the bank,
Also note that if we don't do this business, our bank managers will take this money and share among themselves.

I hope that you will treat this letter with strictest
confidentiality.
best regards

Ms Vivian Atta

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