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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:
  • "30% for you " (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)
  • "a reliable and reputable person to handle this" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • judybanker@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Jude Borley" <judibanker007@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:45:10 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: How are You ?


From: The Desk of Dr. Jude Borley,
Manager,
International Commercial Bank plc
First-Light, Kaneshie Branch,
Accra Ghana.

Attn: Dear,
I hope this may not constitute sort of embarrassment to you, I know you don’t know me very well, but First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. But I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.

I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of your discreetness and ability in transaction of this nature. let me start by introduce my self properly to you, My name is Dr.Jude Borley, I am the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank of Ghana first light kaneshie branch in the Western Region of Ghana.
I came to know you in my Private Search for a Reliable and Reputable Person to handle this Confidential Transaction. I am 45years of age and married with 3 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and INTERGRITY; I only hope we can assist each other.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank; it is my duty to send in a financial report to our head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each year. On the course of the last year 2005 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Eleven Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Us dollars [$11,550.000.00] which our head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work together, so that you can assist and receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. The sharing of the fund are thus: 30% for you 50% for i and the remaining 20% for any legal expenses we have acquired in this transaction.

Note! there are practically no risk involved this transaction, is 100% risk free and legally blinded, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that our Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, if you find this proposal suitable for you, do furnish me with the following information’s: Your full Name, Contact Address, Tel/Fax Number, Date of Birth, Marital Status, Nationality, Occupation and Position. To enable me fix your information's in our account data file, so that you will be recognized in our bank as one of our customers before the onward transfer will be made.

I will appreciate it very much. If this proposal is acceptable by you,Please Kindly reply me through my alternative email address box at : judybanker@yahoo.co.in, do not make undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you. And how we can achieve it successfully. Please feel free to ask me any question.
Best regards,
Dr. Jude Borley


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