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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:
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
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Fraud email example:

From: "amah5 kweku" <amah5kweku@msn.com>
Reply-To: amah_kweku@go4.it
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:34:33 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal waiting to hear from you

Dear Friend,

I am Miss Amah Kweku, the personal beautician to Chief Mrs Stella Obasanjo,
wife of the President of the federal repulic of Nigeria. I have worked with
the first lady for five years as her personal aid. Within this period, we
have been so close and she trusted me so much considering the fact that my
aunty Mrs Nana Khufour the wife of the president of the republic of Ghana
introduced me to her and asked her as her personal beautician. It was during
this introduction that she insisted that i must work with her considering
the good job she had seen me do on my
aunty and former boss.

The worst happened recently. If you have been close to the news, am quite
sure that you have heared of the death of my boss Mrs Stella Obansanjo at a
Spanish hospital. I was personally part of the trip and had long returned
back home for her burial, which is over now.

Now that my boss is late and my job gone, i have one thing that only i and
her know about. She deposited some fund ($22million) in my name in a
clearinghouse in Accra Ghana during one of our visits to Ghana. When
demanded what the money was meant for she insisted that she hould let me
know when the time comes. Till date she never told me and now she is
late.What i want now is
someone who will assist me by way of providing me with informations about
himself/herself
so that i will be able to effect the ownership of the fund in his or her
name so as to be able to transfer the money to the persons country. The fund
is in a special account though in my name,
i will not be able to make withdrawals until it is cleared from the
clearinghouse.

I later understood that this is how they have been embezzling public fund
using names of their aids and personal assistants. I do not wish to let my
Aunty know abou this as she will rather return the money to the Obasanjo's
family in Nigeria. At present, i am in Ghana my country to see that i effect
this transaction.

I wish to assure you that this transaction is risk free.

Thanks in anticipation of your kind gesture.
Regards,

Amah Kweku

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