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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • boateng_essien15@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Boateng Essien <b_essien8@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:56:19 +0000
Subject: THIS IS URGENT INFORMATION FROM Mr.Boateng


From: Mr. Boateng Essien.The Manager International Commercial Bank Ghana,First Light Branch Accra, Ghana. Attention:Please, I got your contact during my search for a reliable, honest and a trustworthy person to entrust this huge transfer project with.My name is Mr. Boateng Essien.I am the manager of the International Commercial Bank, First Light Branch, Accra Ghana. I am a Ghanaian, married with two kids. I am writing to solicit for your assistance in the transfer of funds valued at US$5,300.000.00.This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the Manager made as profit during the last annual audition. I have already submitted an approved end of the year report for the year 2006 to my head office in Accra here and they will never know of this excess. I have since then, placed this amount of US$5,300.000.00 in a suspense account without a beneficiary. As an officer of the bank, I cannot directly be connected to this fund thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this fund into your bank account. I intend to part 30% of this fund to you as compensation while 70% shall be for me. I do stress that there are practically no risk involved in this. It’s going to be a bank- to -bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of the fund. If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response. Please contact me with this email address:boateng_essien15@yahoo.com Thanks,Mr. Boateng Essien
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