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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:

• 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:
  • "might come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "into 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 next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • okyere.bright@personal.ro (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "THE BRANCH MANAGER" <fambl@walla.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:44:40 +0100
Subject: FROM: MANAGER DESK: INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP WANTED

Greetings,
I sincerely ask for forgiveness for I know this may seem like a complete intrusion to your privacy but right about now this is my option of
communication. This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind; but
please consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility. I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship.

I am Mr. Okyere Bright a banker by profession, I am the branch manager in charge of one of our banks here in Accra Ghana.For the sack of confidentiality of this business i would not want to disclose my bank to you unless we agree to save my job.This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as profit during the last year. I have already submitted an approved end of the year 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 in a suspence account.
I want to know if your private or corporate bank account has the capacity to contain the sum of Three Million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$3.5 Million) Dollars.

First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have
confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment. You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down either now or in future because this business is my life.

I intend to transfer this fund out of my country if you can provide an account. if you are interested to do this business with me. There is no risk in
this business. With my position and my personal contact with the bank of Ghana, the money can be transferred to any account you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing.

So you should provide me with your correct account details where you will like the fund to be transferred to, or you can set up a new bank account for the transfer. At the conclusion of the transfer you will take 30%, 10% will be for any expenses both parties incurred in the process of this business and the remaining 60 % will be for my investment in your country.

As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me down once the fund goes into your account I will then start the processing of the transfer of the fund to your account without further delay.

If you are interested, please forward the following information as below:

{1} Your Name/company's name and full address, Your telephone Nos.both Home, Office & Cell/Mobile and fax Numbers...

{2} Bank Name:............
{3} Bank Address...
{4} Account No:.........
{5} Swift Code...{if any}
{6} Account Holder's Name: ..........
{7} Your Valid ID

Upon the receipt of the above details, payment will be activated by the feeding of your data into payment system, followed by
a signal that will be sent to the paying bank to remit funds into your nominated bank account within 5 official working days of receipt of the
above information. Contact me urgently via email: address: okyere.bright@personal.ro privately for further details.

Thank you very much and hope to hear from you very soon.
Best Regards,
MR.OKYERE BRIGHT.

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