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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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• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.

Fraud email example:

From: Dagogo Mark <dmchambers_legalconsultants@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 08:19:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: DISAPPOINTED IN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Attn: Pastor Robert Ised.

Dear Sir,

To my utter amazement I just cannot believe what you are saying as regards you sending the money to me which is not true. There is no where that western union rules are not the same.

For your information, I sent my accounts officer to Prudential Bank today in Accra as there is none in Makola as you have stated in your email and he was told there there is no such service. Secondly, I called the number you gave me but it was a wrong number.

Sir, I am not trying to insult you as I respect you as a man of God which you made me to believe. If you are really sure you wish to help Mrs. Muhammed, you should go and send the money and send me the transfer informations so that I can go and pick it up. Without this, I will know you are not willing to help the dying and old woman but have been just pulling her legs all this while and will help her to look for someone herself instead or making her believe that you are willing to help her.

To send the money, you should send it to my fellow associate's name:

DOMINIC BUABENG ANDOH
ACCRA GHANA.
TEL: +233 246 618236.

Do this and send me the whole transfer informations so that sender's name, text question and answer, MTCN and all vital informations needed to claim it so that I ca send the lawyer in my chambers whose name is given to you above to go and pick it up.

It will interest you to know that I have a brother in Alabama who sends me money through western union money transfer and I called him today and he told me that all are lies that if you send money to me, you will send me the transfer informations like he does.

Kindly get back to me as quickly as possible so that I will know what next to do.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Dagogo Mark.
Tel: +233 277 151454.


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