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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)
  • "it will be a bank to bank transfer" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a reliable and reputable person to handle this" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • nana_kwame44@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Nana Kwame <kwame_100200@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: momougo11@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:50:59 +0100 (BST)
Subject: proposal


>From the Desk of:
Mr. Nana Kwame
The Regional Manager
International Commercial Bank of Ghana
I.C.B.G
Takoradi
Ghana.
Attn:
I hope this may not constitute sort of embarrassment to your person.
First I must solicit your confidence in this Transaction. This is by virtue of its being highly confidential and of Top Secret. But I am assuring you of its Complete Legality.
I am Nana Kwame, the Regional Manager of the International Commercial Bank of Ghana, I.C.B.G, Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. I came to know you through the Unclassified Files at the International Chamber of Commerce in my Private Search for a Reliable and Reputable Person to handle this Confidential Transaction. I am 44years of age and married with 3 lovely kids.
As the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank, it is my duty to send in a Financial Report to my Head Office in the capital city Accra at the end of each year. In the course of last year 2005 end of year report, I discovered that my Regional Branch at which I am the Manager made Eighteen Million Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars [U.S$18.55M] which the Head Office is not aware of and can never be aware of. I have since place this Fund on what is called a SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any Beneficiary.
As an Officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this Fund, so this is why I am contacting you so that you can assist in receiving this Fund into your Bank Account. Note there is practically no risk involved in this transaction as it is 100% risk-free. It will be a Bank to Bank Transfer. All you are requested to do is to stand as the Original Depositor of this Fund who made the deposit with our Branch so that the Head Office can affect the transfer into your Designated Bank Account.
And you must recognize that in a Transaction of this nature, you are expected to state your NEGOTIABLE percentage %.
If you accept this offer do furnish me with the following information:
· Your Full Names and Contact Address,
· Your Private Telephone and Fax Numbers, or you can send me email nana_kwame44@yahoo.co.uk
Best regards,
Mr. Nana Kwame
Regional Manager
I.C.B.G,
Federal Republic of Ghana.

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