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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: "Kwesi Martins" <kwesim@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drkmartins1@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:01:36 +0100
Subject: From: Dr Kwesi Martins.


From: Dr Kwesi Martins.
The Manager Standard Chartered Bank,
First Light Branch
Accra Ghana.


Attn:

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
Dr Kwesi Martins. I am the manager of the Standard Chartered 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 $5,620,000.00 (five million six hundred and twenty thousand
United States Dollars.)

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 2007 to my head office in
Accra here and they will never know of this excess. I have since then,
placed this amount of value $5,620,000.00 in a suspense escrow account
without a beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank, I cannot directly be connected to this money
thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this Money
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 is going to be a bank- to-bank
transfer. All I need from is to stand as the original depositor of the
fund.

If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response.

Yours Sincerely,
Dr Kwesi Martins.

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