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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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  • "this business is hitch free " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: PETER ZRAH <pzrah12@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 03:52:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT FORM MR EZRAH


Dear Sir,
My name is MR PETER EZRAH, the manager, credit and foreign bills of
commercial bank of ghana Plc. I am writing you in respect of a foreign customer by name Mr Jimmy Kim Patel of my bank with account number 89-3k7-2000/cbg plc who perished in a auto crash with his wife and only daughter on April 20,2003.
Since the demise of this our customer, whom I could not care less about, I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$6.7M. [Six Million,Seven Hundred thousand US Dollars which has been with my branch for a very long time. It is my branch for I sit on it for a long time.

Following the recent memo issued by the Federal Government of Ghana,
instructing all bank to transfer all money(s) that had remain in their bank vaults for 5-6 years into the Fedral Government treasury.It is On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of Kin as no one has come up to be the Next of Kin, and the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than nine years, because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed/unserviceableafter this period. In view of this I got your contact through my private search in the internet to see if you can assist.

I will give you 30% of the total for your assistance.Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the application letter, and the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within five banking days, after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased.When you receive this letter.

Kindly send me an e-mail signifying Your decision including your private
Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication.

Respectfully submitted,
MR EZRAH

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