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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
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Fraud email example:

From: wilsonkofiomotolo005@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:24:54 -0200
Subject: BUSINESS INVESTMENT

Greetings,

I want to bring to your knowledge of a very lucrative business
opportunity,which I will like you to consider as a golden opportunity worth
doing. I have some money lodged in a private security vault out side Ghana and
I would require your cooperation as a partner to claim it out from the security

vault as the beneficiary.

I work with the Central Bank of Ghana as the secretary in the
Governor's office;Cash payment Desk and I endorse diplomatic clearance for the
diplomats who accompany contractor's funds in cash to seven countries for contract
payments. Presently there are two boxes that contains Thirty four million United

States Dollars(34,000,000.00)and in each of the boxes, it contains Seventeen
million United States Dollars ($17,000,000.00).

These two boxes was supposed to be for contract payment of one
contractor from Dominican Republic, who died but non of his next of kin has
come to claim the funds. The governor of the Central Bank of Ghana then filled
in a paper that I should endorse it for the funds to be returned to the government

treasury.I did not endorse it but rather decided to divert it and moved it out
of the country to a private security vault so as to use anyone that will be
interested to work with me as a partner and claim the boxes.

I have all necessary documents to get the boxes out from the security vault,which
I will give to you to qualify you the owner of the boxes. You will then get
in touch with the person in charge of the security vault to notify them your
coming to pick up the boxes, then you will be informed the country of location
of the security vault to enable you prepare yourself for the trip.

If you are willingly and interested in this business, please act fast to get
in touch with me so that we can begin immediately to arrange getting the boxes
out before it accumulates much charge due to the daily charges of $100.00 per

day. And for your compensation, I would not be greedy because it is not my personal
money, we will share it equally (50%, 50%) as partners.

I await your urgent response.
Thanks,
Dr.Wilson Omotolo.

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