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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:
  • "is highly confidential" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: franc_sab@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 16:30:31 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?PLEASE=20YOU=20GET=20BACK=20TO=20ME=20URGENTLY=2E?=

PLEASE AM CONTACTING YOU FROM
The Auditorial Manager Desk,
International Commercial Bank Ghana
First Makola Shopping Mall,
Accra Ghana.

Am Mr Frances Kofi,The Auditor manager of
the International Commercial Bank of Ghana,First Makola
Shopping Mall.

Please i whant you to help me on the transaction
of this USD$19.5 Million Dollars.
which was an excess of what my branch in which I
am the manager made as profit during the last two years
balance .
Which i have already submitted an approved End of the Years
report for the 2003&2004 to my Head Office here in
Accra Ghana,and i asure you,they will never know of this Excess.
I have since then, placed this amount of USD19.5 Million
on an ESCROW ACCOUNT without a beneficiary please.

You can understand,as an officer of this bank, I cannot be directly connected
to this money so I am impelling to request
your assistance to receive this money into your bank account as a forigner.I
intend to part 20% of this fund to you immidiatly after this transaction
while75% shall be for me and 5% for expenciss encured while transacting
this money.
I do need to stress that there are practically no risk
involved in this transaction.
It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer.

Please all I need from you is to stand as the
original depositor of this fund.
please get back to me as soon as possible with the
following information's of your's for us to proceed
fast: (1)your name, confidential phone number and your
office fax.(2)your house private number and cell
phone for easy communication as i may not have enough
time to be sending you mails.

Note:this is highly confidential as you may know that
i am still working as a banker in this bank and will
like to retain my position.

Best Regards
Frances Kofi.



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