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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.
  • haatso_ib@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Haatso Ibrahim" <haatso_x94@superposta.com>
Reply-To: hatso_ib@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:07:19 +0100
Subject: Greetings


Hello,

Compliments of the day.Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you
as a surprise and may offend your personality for contacting you without
your prior consent and writing through this unofficial channel.

My name is Mr.Haatso Ibrahim,manager of the financial institution,here in
Tamale branch,the Northern Region of Ghana.I am a Ghanaian married with four
kids.I am writing to solicit for your assistance in the transfer of
$6,720.000.00 million U.S dollars only.I got your contact during my search
for a reliable,honest and a trust worthy person to entrust this huge
transfer project with.

This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as
profit during the 2006 financial year. I have already submitted annual
report for that year to my head office here in Accra the capital city of
Ghana, as I have watched with keen interest as they will never know of this
excess. I have since, placed this amount on what we call Escrow Coded
account without a beneficiary (anonymous) to avoid trace. As an officer of
the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money due to civil service
code which forbids civil servants from owing or operating foreign currency
account coupled with the fact that the fund is huge,thus I am impelled to
request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account on
my behalf.

I intend to part 25% of this fund to you.I do need to 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 this
fund so that the fund can be transferred to your account.

Further Information will be given to you when you reply back and provide me
with your private telephone and fax including your private email address so
i can email or call you for more detailed information.Thanks and God bless.

Truly yours

Mr. Haatso Ibrahim.
Email: haatso_ib@hotmail.com

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