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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:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "paul kwame" <paulkwamea27@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: paul_kwame2@yahoo.de
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:03:20 +0000
Subject: From ,Mr Paul Kwame,

From ,Mr Paul Kwame,
Ghana Commercial Bank[GCB]
Tema Branch
Accra Ghana.West Africa.

Dear Sir,

I am Mr Paul Kwame,Chief accountant with Ghana Commercial Bank[GCB] One of
our accounts with a holding balance of $12 Million USD (United State
Dollars) has been dormant and has not been operated for the past four years.

From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account,a
foreigner died in 2002,in a auto accident and since then nobody has done
anything as regards the claiming of this money because he has no family
members who are aware of the existence the account. nor the fund Also.
Information from the National Immigration stated that he was also single on
entry into Republic of Ghana.I have secretly discussed this matter with some
of the bank officials and we agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to
deal with.

We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of
the deceased, for the funds to be released to you after due processes have
been followed.
This transaction is totally risk free as the fund is legitimate and does not
originate from drugs, money laundering,terrorism or any other illegal act
The sharing of the fund between us, is as follows; 30% of the total sum will
go to you for your effort and commitment to the success of this transaction.
60% for me and my collague's. While 10% set aside for expenses incurred in
due process of this transaction.

As soon as i receive an acknowledge of the receipt of this message in
Acceptance, i will immediately start up with the processing of the document
of cliams.

Best Regards
Mr Paul Kwame.

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