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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: "EVELIN" <evelinmutan1@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: evelinmutan2@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:49:32 +0200
Subject: GOOD NEWS

Dear

My name is Evelin Mutan,I am the Regional manager of Africa Merchant
Bank,Ghana Kumasi branch in the western Region of Ghana.I am married
with
one lovely son. I am a woman 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.

Ms Evelin Mutan
Regional Manager,
Africa Merchant Bank, Ghana

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