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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: "Kobena Kontor" <kobenakontor88@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kobkontor@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:42:32 +0000
Subject: Good Day!!!

Attn:

My name is Kobena Kontor,I am the Regional manager of Africa Merchant
Bank,Ghana Kumasi branch in the western Region of Ghana.I am married with
two lovely kids. I am a man of peace and I don't want problems, I only hope
you can assist me. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit
you and I, as the Regional manager of Africa Merchant Bank, it is my duty to
send in a financial report to my head office in the Capital city Accra at
the end of each Business Year.On the course of the last year 2004 Business
Report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made one
million five hundred and twenty housand US Dollars ($1,520,000.00) which my
head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this
fund on what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary.

As an officer of this Bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so
my aim of contacting you to assist me receive this money in your Bank
account and get 30% of the total fund as commission though is negotiable.
There are pratically no risk involved, it will be a Bank to Bank Transfer,
all I need from you is to stand claim as the Original depositor of this
funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order
the transfer to your designated Bank account. if you accept to work with me
I will appreciate it very much.

Write me if you think we can work together so that we can go over the
details, Thank you in advance and may God bless.

Mr Kobena Kontor
Regional Manager,
Africa Merchant Bank, Ghana



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