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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: "steven boateng" <stevenboateng17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: boateng1@voila.fr
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 17:33:08 +0000
Subject: My Honorable Partner,

My Honorable Partner,
I am Mr. Steven Boateng, an accountant officer with Intercontinental Bank,
Plc (I.B.P) branch here in Accra Republic of Ghana. I gathered your
information from my country's international chamber of commerce and
industries, The business I am about to introduce is based-on sheer trust and
with a sense of purpose. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the
sum of eighteen million two hundred thousand united state dollars. The money
and property left behind by (James Groover D.) an American Chair Merchant in
my bank branch here in country who died accidentally On the 21st of April
2004., I gathered all this information through a good source after my
several routine note to his forwarding address here because he had served
here in my country as a business consultant with the Ghanaian National
Petroleum & Gas Cooperation (G.N.P.G.C) and also a legal adviser to the
O.P.E.C Chairman. Please get back to me if you are interesting with this
proposal to enable us to proceed, and be notify that the amount due for the
payment to you with my good conduct to this transaction is US$18,200.000.00.
Here's the information I need from you very urgent.
1) Your full
name:...............................................................................
2) Phone, fax and mobile
number.:......................................................
3) Company name and
address.:.........................................................
4) Position, age and marital
status.:.....................................................
5) Scanned copy of any ID Card, Driver’s license or any other legal form of
identification.
As soon as this information is received, payment process will be made to you
in a certified bank draft or wired to your bank account directly from our
correspondence payment bureau here in Dakar Senegal or here in Ghana. It is
important you call my direct number +233 2422 13 900 for a serious
discussion and transfer arrangement of this amount as soon as you receive
this letter or you get back to me through this secure e-mail box Email:
(boateng1@voila.fr)
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Steven Boateng
Accountant officer with Intercontinental Bank Plc

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