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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 odu <johnodu2001@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:43:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE LET ME KNOW YOUR MIND


Dear sir,

It is with pleasure, honour and respect that I ambringing this business proposal to you and with hope it will be for a mutual benefit to both of us. I am optimistic you wont let down the trust and confidence I will repose in you.

I am MR. JOHN ODU, the Auditor General INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK ACCRA GHANA. During a routine auditof our Bank, we discovered a dormant account of a foreign contractor who died aboard the Egyptian airline boeing 747 that crashed on 31st October 2001 on its way from New-York to Cairo Egypt.

Since the death of this customer, nobody has applied or come forward with claims to our Bank as a family, relation or friend to the affected disaster victim. The regulations of the Bank stipulates that any account that has not been operational for a period of two years becomes automatically dormant. Now the money of the affected foreign victim has been deposited into an imprest account of GHANA COMMECIAL BANK.I MR JOHN ODU needs your assistance by presenting yourself to the bank or making a formal request through me to INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK ACCRA GHANA as a relation to the foreign contractor whose account is amounting twenty five million three hundred thousand dollars ($25.03m) in adomiciliary account.

This money has been in this account for a period of three years.I, MR JOHN ODU assure you of that this transaction is 100% risk free if only you are willing to help. For your assistance to assist me transfer this money to your account in your country, I will let go to you 25% of the total sum of the money and strongly and honestly promise to off set 5% for any sundry expenditure you might incur during the course of this transaction.

As soon as I get your reply I will proceed to give you all my contacts and all necessary informations with regards to the account.Please your full name, address, telephone are highly needed to enable me proceed the preparation of the transfer with my contacts in the bank.

NB: Remember to keep this proposal secret and confidential because of my position in the Bank. I assure you with my position and contacts in the bank,this money will be lifted into your account hitchfree. Best regards,

JOHN ODU


AUDITOR G, I.C.B.










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