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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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  • "(ecowas)" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: dr paul kwesi <drpaulkwesi003@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <dr.paul_kwesi@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:53:15 +0000
Subject: Goog day to You



Dr Paul KwesiDirector of finance,The World Bank assisted projects Economic Community of West African States North-West Regional office . Accra Ghana
Dear,
Compliment of the season. I am the Director of finance, Economic Community of West African States. North-West Regional office Accra Ghana. My office oversee all developmental projects financed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)Under The World Bank assisted projects. Within this zone ( Burkina Faso , Gambia Mali , Ivory Coast , Senegal, Ghana and Guinea ).
We have decided to contact you in order to arrange for a possible transfer of the sum of $26.3 twenty six million three hundred thousand dollars into your account. This money is a subject of an over inflated/invoiced contract sum acquired from contracts awarded by the above Agency in the past years.
The original contractors have been paid and all projects executed by them commissioned. This over inflated/invoiced amount can not be withdraw locally from the Security finance company because some contractors concerned are foreign Firms.

As a matter of trust, honesty and secrecy, we have decided to contact you as to assist us provide an account for this transaction if you have accepted to assist and fully participate in this transaction, kindly furnish us with the necessary information such as Your full address,company names , Private Telephone and Private fax, we will then present as the contractor who concluded the project and need to be paid.

After many years of meticulous services to the government and people of our sub region we would not want our image to be dented. Therefore we expect you to handle this transaction with utmost maturity by keeping everything secret. I can assure you that if our instructions are carefully adhered to, there will not be any hitch through out the transaction,

there is no risk on your side, because we have perfected the deal very well over years. After the transfer, we will be coming over to your country for further sharing and possible investments. We shall offer 30% of the money. 10% for all expences local and international . 60% for us.

Be positive to contact me urgently.

Dr Paul Kwesi
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