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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
  • "remmittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • kennethk215@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Kenneth Kadah" <ke_adah4@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:22:32 -0400
Subject: Bank Official Very Confidencial

FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGER
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
OF GHANA.

Dear Friend,

This may come to you as a surprise since we have not met before.I have made
a deep and careful findings and reserach before contacting you and believe
you are
related to this person. Can i please seek your consent to present you to the
bank as next of kin? Can i have your trust and confidence.

With your quick response,I want to transfer to overseas account
($17,500.000.00 USD) Seventeen million five hundred thousand united States
Dollars) from INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK OF GHANA here in Accra Republic
of Ghana, I want to ask you, If you are capable then we can do it but if you
are not capable to. Please quietly look for a reliable and honest person
who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to
set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even a new dollar
a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me
till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing in God
that you will never let me down either now or in future.

I am Mr. Kenneth Kadah,The manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remmittance department International commercial bank of Ghana, during the
course of our auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in
the bank in 1995 and since 2000 no body has operated on this account
again,after going through some old files in the records I discovered that
the owner of the account died without a (Heir/WILL) hence the money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited
to the Government tressury as an unclaimed fund just for nothing.

The owner of this account is MR.J.C.O'BRIEN, a foreigner,and the director of
petro-technical support services, a chemical engineer by profession and he
died since 1998 in a car accident here in Accra Ghana.No other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until his death
he was the director GOLD ARK LTD GHANA.

We will start the first transfer with ten million ($10,000.000) and upon
successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount to your account.

The total amount involve is Seventeen million five hundred thousand united
States Dollars only [$17,500.000.00]. I want to first transfer
$10,000.000.00 (Ten million United States Dollar) from this money into a
safe foreigners account abroad before the rest. But I don't know any
foreigner,that is why, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this
money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid
international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner
with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because
the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the a/c is a foreigner.

However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together when we meet
face to face after the first transfer of $10 Million before transferring the
second part of [$7,500.000.00] seven Million five hundred thousand dollars.

I am revealing this to you with the belief in God that you will never let me
down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am
contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform
you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax
number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit.
I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a binding
agreement that will bind us together immediately after the first transfer
before we fly to your country for the total withdrawal, onward sharing and
further investments.

I need your full co-operation to make this work-out fine because the Bank
management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you upon your positive
response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
business.

I need your strong assurance that you will never,never let me down. With my
influence and my position in the bank, the bank official can transfer this
money to any foreigner's reliable account that you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in
your country for sharing. The bank official Will destroy all documents of
transaction immediately we receive this money eaving no trace to any place
you know that this business is confidential.

I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for
onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance
from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 45% of the total
amount, 50% will be for me and my partner, while 5% will be for expenses
both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail, the text of
application form which you will transcribe as your order and send to the
bank. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch
free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been successfully made before contacting you. So therefore
you are to contact me via my private mail box (kennethk215@myway.com)

Please include your telephone number while replyimg for more oral
clarification.

Thank you and remain bless.

Best regards,

Mr.Kenneth Kadah.

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