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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "oge ziem" <ogeziem06@msn.com>
Reply-To: accountant_ogeziem03@myway.com
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:20:33 +0000
Subject: pls help us.

>From The Desk Of Mr Oge Ziem.
Accra Ghana.

Firstly, I am Mr Oge ziem a senior accountant in one of the Africa Petroleum
Oil Company here in Ghana. I humbly wish to seek your personal assistance in
this urgent transfer transaction. Although we have not met before but i
believe that business transaction is game of trust.

I and my partner stroke a deal this febuary 2005 in our company where both
of us are working. This deal was stroke with one Mr Robert Hook who
executed contract with our company. Me and my second overestimated the
contract bill, after the contract was done and the contractor was paid, we
realise from the the overestimated bill to the tune of (ten point five
million united states of America Dollars) $10.5m usd.

Due to we are still serving in the company and we don't have a foreign
account where this money will be kept for security reasons, we arranged with
Mr Hook the contractor to assist us keep this money in one of his account in
Europe untill we resigned from the company. The gentle and kind man aggreed
and kept the money for us in his account. On the 3rd of july 2005 he travel
to London with his family on a holiday, unfortunately he was involved with
his wife and their only son in the july 7th London bomb blast that took
their lives and co-passengers.

Since then we are making a solid arrangenment with his lawyer on how to get
our money out from the bank before it is too late. Now we have finalised on
the arrangenment but we needed a reliable and honest person that can provide
another foreign account where the bank can retransfer the money. For
providing this account and keeping the money, we aggreed to give you 25% of
the total sum for your great assistance. If you are interested in this
transaction, please contact me via email for more details. Also due to the
nature of this transaction, we will appreciate it to be kept very
confidential.

Thanks and will be expecting your urgent response for immediate processing
of the transfer. We assured you that this transaction will be executed under
legal and legitimate way.

Your's Truly,

Mr Oge Ziem.

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