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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:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • too_banker1985@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Tony Chuk" <tonibanker0010@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:16:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: How are You ?


From: The Desk of Dr.Tony Chuk,
Manager,
Agricultural Development Bank Ltd
Accra North Branch,
Accra-Ghana.

Attn: Dear,

I am Dr.Tony Chuk, the branch manager of Agricultural Development Bank Ltd (ADB).you might not know me very well but by the end of this transaction you shall be thankful knowing somebody like me.

During the end of our auditing of accounts at my branch Bank last year ending, I came across a ghost account, in which the account reads the sum of $11.550.000.00 USD (Eleven Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars),I continued in my search and discovered that this said account was owned by one of our deceased customers. And there was no next of kin affixed at the time of the deposit.

Although personally i kept this information’s secret within myself to enable the whole plan and idea be profitable and successful during execution. And it’s my obligations to send my financial reports to our headquarters’ in Accra. Before then i decided to place this money in what we call SUSPENCE account without any beneficiary.

As a Senior Officer in the Bank I cannot directly claim this money here in Accra, on this ground I contact you for us to work together, so that you can assist and receive this money at any of your nominated Bank account for us to share. I have so placed this fund for the sharing 30% for you 50% for i and the remaining 20% for any miscellaneous in the course of the transaction.

I will also want you to understand that it is 100% risk free and legally blinded. It will strictly be bank to bank transfer; all I need from you is to represent the real depositor of this fund in our bank, so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

However, if my offer is granted by you, please do furnish me with the following information’s: Your full name, Contact Address, Date of Birth, Marital Status, Educational Status, Tel/Fax Numbers, Nationality,To enable me fix your information in our account data file, so that you will be recognized in our bank as a customer before the onward transfer
I will appreciate it very much, if this proposal is accepted by you. Please Kindly reply through my alternative e-mail address box below at: too_banker1985@yahoo.ca

Best Regards.
Dr.Tony Chuk.


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