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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 about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • bankismypride@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: emilo atta <bankismypride@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bankismypride_emilo@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:47:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Good Day Sir.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: bankismypride@yahoo.com

Greetings.



It is with pleasure, honour and respect that I am bringing this business proposal to you and with hope it will be for a mutual benefit to both of us. I am optimistic you wont let down the trust and confidence I will repose in you.



I am DR EMILO ATTA.Head of foreign remmitance department Eco Bank Regional Office Accra Ghana.During a routine audit of our Bank, we discovered a dormant account of a foreign contractor who died aboard the Egyptian airline boeing 747 that crashed on 31st October 1999 on its way from New-York to Cairo Egypt. Since then nobody has applied or come forward with claims to our Bank as a family, relation or friend to the affected disaster victim.



The regulations of the Bank stipulates that any account that has not been operational for a period of two years becomes automatically dormant. Now the money of the affected foreign victim has been deposited into an supense account of ECO BANK.I DR EMILO ATTA, needs your assistance by presenting yourself to the bank or making a formal request through me to ECO BANK as a relation to the foreign contractor whose account is worth more than five million three hundred thousand dollars ($5.03m) in a domiciliary account.



This money has been in his account for a period of more than ten years.I, DR EMILO ATTA, assure you of a risk free transaction if only you are willing to help. For your assistance to assist me transfer this money to your account and country, I will like to give you 50% of the whole money and strongly and honestly promise to offset any sundry expenses you might incur during the course of the transaction.



As soon as I get your reply I will proceed to give you all my contacts and all necessary informations with regards to the account.Please your full name, address, telephone are highly needed to enable me proceed the preparation of the transfer with my contacts in the bank.



NB: Remember to keep this proposal secret and confidential because of my position in the Bank. I assure you with my position and contacts in the bank, this money will be lifted into your account hitch free.


Regrads,

Dr. Emilo Atta

Foreign Remmitance Department.

Eco Bank-Accra Ghana.

N.b.

I will furnish you with all neccassary details and Relivant Document to this Transaction when i get a sound Reply From you.

- emilo atta

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