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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: peter kamara <peter_kamara7@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:42:42 +0000
Subject: IN GOD WE TRUST



Dear My name is PETER KAMARA I am the Regional manager ofBarclays Bank of Ghana Limited, Takoradi branch in theWestern region of Ghana. I am a man of peace, marriedwith two lovely kids. I never want problems in mylife, it was just because of my present financialsituation that I have carefully planned to utilizethis opportunity that came my way, and I only hope youcan assist me not to persecute me. If you don't wantthis proposal, can you kindly forget that I evercontacted you. I will be glad you did for the sake ofmy job.I have packaged a financial transaction that willbenefit you and I, as the Regional manager of theBarclays Bank, it is my duty to send in a financialreport to my head office in the capital city, Accra,at the end of each business year. In the course oflast year 2007, business report, I discovered that mybranch in which I am the manager, made five million,sixhundred US dollars (US$5,600,000) which my head officeis not aware of and will never be aware of. I haveplaced this funds on what we call escrow call accountwith any beneficiary.As an officer of this bank, I cannot be directlyconnected to this money, so my aim of contacting youis to assist me receive this money in your bankaccount and get 30% of the total funds as commission.There are practically no risk involved, it will be abank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to standclaim as the original depositor of this funds, whomade the deposit with my branch so that my head officecan order the transfer to your designated bankaccount. If you accept to work with me, I willappreciate it very much.my email is as above. email meif you think we can work together so that we can goover the details. Thank you in advance and may Godbless you and your family.I will provide you with allthe necessary documents on how to go about thistransaction.YOU CAN GET BACK TO ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL ID AS barclays_bank0005@yahoo.co.ukRegards,PETER KAMARA
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