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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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  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "William Ata" <williama1964@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:27:48 -0700
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME


Dear Friend,

My name is William Ata. I am the regional manager of The International
commercial bank ltd, Accra, Ghana. I got your information during my search
through the Internet. I am 44years of age and married with 2lovely Kids. It
may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and do not want problem, I
only hope we can assist each other. If you don't want this business offer
kindly forget it, as I will not contact you again.



I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the
regional manager of the International commercial bank ltd; 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. On the course of the last year 2007, I discovered that
my branch in which I am the manager made Four million five hundred thousand
dollars [4,500.000.00] which my head office are not aware of and will never
be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT
without any beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this money, so
this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist
receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you will
have 30% of the total fund. Note there is practically no risk involved, it
will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the
original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that
my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.



If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much. As
soon as I receive your response I will details you on how we can achieve it
successfully.





Best regards,



Mr. William Ata

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