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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:
  • "there is no risk involved" (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.
  • vic_mensah@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "david ankrah" <david_ankrah01@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:16:37 +0000
Subject: THIS IS A GOOD DAY


>FROM THE OFFICE OF MR David.MENSAH,
MANAGER TREASURY DEPARTMENT
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
OF GHANA.

Dear Sir,

I am David mensah, working with the International Commercial Bank,
Accra-Ghana as the manager for Kanneshi Branch. On the course of the last
year 2006 end of the year's report, I discovered that my branch in which I
am the manager made Five million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars
(5,500,000.00) as an excess profit. This fund is currently lying unclaimed
in my bank’s NUSTRO ACCOUNT, without a beneficiary. I waited for this long
because I want to be sure that no one will come for the claim of the fund.I
discovered this fund November 2005 and this is FEBUARY 2007.Is above a year
and the fund has been in the Nustro account which means it is an excess
profit.

I intend to transfer this fund to a foreign account for my private use but
as an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to the claim of
the money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to stand as the
owner of the money to claim and receive it into your bank account. You
shall be given 30% of this fund for your committed effort while 65% shall be
for me and 5% shall be for contingences. I do need to assure you that there
is no risk involved in this. It’s going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All i
need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund.And in
regards to that further information will be communicated to you as soon as i
recieve your positive response via my private email:(vic_mensah@yahoo.com)


I will appreciate your timely response.

Yours truly,

David Mensah.

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