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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Michael Ezra" <m_ezra6@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:11:15 +0000
Subject: From ICB Ghana

From: The Manager,
International Commercial Bank Ghana
First Light Branch
Accra, Ghana.

Greetings to you,

I got your contact during my search for a reliable; trust worthy and honest
person to introduce this transfer project with. My name is Mr. Michael Ezra.
I am the manager of the International Commercial Bank Ghana, First Light
Branch Accra. I am a Ghanaian married with two kids.

I am writing to solicit your assistance in the noble transfer of USD
5,500,000.00. This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the
manager made as profit in 2005. I have already submitted an approved End
report for the year 2005 to my Head Office here in Accra and they will never
know of this Excess. I have since then, placed this amount of USD
5,500,000.00 (Five Million Five hundred Thousand United States Dollars) on a
SUSPENCE ACCOUNT without a beneficiary.

I found out that this funds belong to one Late Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER a
German great industrialist and a resident of Munich, who unfortunately lost
his life along with his entire families in the plane crash of CONCORDE
AIRLINE [Flight AF4590] which crashed on 25TH JULY, 2000.You can read more
news about the crash on visiting this site;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus
I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your
bank account. I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be
for me. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in
this. It is going to be a bank-to-bank transfer to your nominated bank
account anywhere you feel safer. All I need from you is to stand as the
original depositor of this fund.

I will appreciate your timely response.

With regards,
Michael Ezra.

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