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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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Fraud email example:

From: "nana"<nanarichard2@excite.com>
Reply-To: nanarichard02@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:14:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CAN WE WORK TOGETHER?


Dear friend, I hope this mail meets you in good health. My name is Nana Richard, I am a director in the finance department of the Ministry of Health, Republic of Ghana, in West Africa. I got your e-mail during a personal research on the Internet and wish to use this opportunity to notify of a bussiness that will benefit both of us if you agree to work with me. Last three years I had the rare privilege of serving the ministry as the chairman of the contract award committee. During this period my committe was saddled with the responsibility of procuring various products for two the ministry through public tender bidding, and in each transaction my committee made some good money from the deal based on our ability to get the desired products on cheaper prices than was budgeted by the ministry. Consequently, the excess fund has accumulated to the tune of USD 4.6M($4.6m) The contracts have been completed long ago and the suppliers had long been paid their money in full. But
I still have the excess fund in an escrow account with a bank here in Ghana. It is my intention to transfer the fund out of the bank here in Ghana into a safe foreign bank account outside of Ghana. This is why I am contacting you, so I can get the money transffered in your name into a foreign bank account. I have concluded every necessary arrangement to transfer this fund into a designated bank account number that you will provid to the bank if you agree to work with me. If you are ready to work with me, you would be entitled to 30% of the total fund once the bussiness is concluded. Please contact me as soon as possible. Everything has been arranged. Please for obvious reasons keep this proposal as much confidential as you can. I look forward to hearing from you soonest. Kind regards,Nana Richard

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