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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: dkagy man <dkagyman101@yahoo.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:59:54 +1300 (NZDT)
Subject: GOD BLESSING


Mr/ Sir/ CEO/ Madam My name is Mr. dkagyman. I am the Eastern Regional Manager of the International Commercial Bank of Ghana in West Africa. I got your information on a recent bank conference with other West African countries held in Accra Ghana the capital city of Ghana in West Africa. I do not want problems but I just hope you can assist me. I write you this letter in good faith. I am incontrol of the sum of One Million nine hundred and fifty thousand US dollars ($1,950,000.00) which was an excess of profit made by our regional eastern office in the last quarter of the year 2004, which I have placed on an Escrow call deposit account and did not declare this to my head office. Can I rely on your trust to hold this money for me until I arrive your country and pick it up myself and you deduct 25% of the money as your commission? If you accept my offer you can contact me only on my private phone number. If you do not accept; you can forget I contacted you? All I !
need is
for you to get me a good current account in your bank in your country where these fund can be transferred to any chosen account of yours. The secnario in this transaction is like when you operate with a particular bank and decide to transfer your fund to bank of your chioce; it will be absolutely a bank-to-bank transfer. I hope you understand my situation. Thank you and God bless. Yours truly, dkagyman.Tel:+233 244 426590.

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