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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • koj3bill@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Kojo Bill" <contacts77@shinyfeet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: koj3bill@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:34:26 +0400
Subject: Treat Urgent

Dear sir,

Pardon my approach without a prior consent.
My name is Mr.Kojo Bill, the regional manager of
Barclays Bank of Ghana Kumasi Branch I am a
Ghanaian married with two kids
.
I have packaged a financial transaction that will
benefit both of us. As the regional manager of the
bank, it is my duty to send financial reports to
my head office in the capital city of accra On the
course of the last year 2004 end of the year report,
I discovered that an account with US$4.5 Million
(FOUR MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED STATES DOLLARS) is declared dormant.

This account belongs to a foreign investor, whom you
shear the same surname. I conducted a routine check
and I discovered that he is death. So in my quest to
locate his family I got your contact, courtesy of
Ghana chamber of commerce. According to Laws of
Republic of Ghana, at the expiration of 5(five)
years, the money will revert to the ownership of
the Ghana Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you to
stand in as the next of kin to the depositor. As an
officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected
to this money thus I am compelled to request
for your assistance to receive this money into your
bank account.

I intend to part with 50/50 of this fund. I do need
to assure you that there is practically no risk involved in this. It is going to be a bank-to-bank transfer.I shall provide all relevant depository documents,that might be required, and as a banker I will use myoffice to provide information that might be required.

Looking forward to hearing from you, incase of any
question do not hesitate to email.

PLEASE IS VERY IMPORTANT YOU REPLY TO THIS
EMAIL: koj3bill@yahoo.fr

Regards,
REGIONAL MNG.
BARCLAYS BANK

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