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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • tplarrywounder@yahoo.co.jp (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MR LARRY WOUNDER <vvmrlarry@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: larrywounder@myway.com
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:17:00 +0900 (JST)
Subject: CLASSIFIED REQUEST


>From Mr. Larry Wounder
The Branch Manager
Eco Bank Ghana Ltd,
First Light Branch
Kaneshie Mallam Highway,
Accra-Ghana
West Africa
Email;tplarrywounder@yahoo.co. jp



SEASONAL GREETINGS

Hello Dear, How are you today ? i hope you are doing fine? if so thanks be to ALMIGHTY GOD, who gave us life. Let me start by introducing my self. My name is Mr Larry Wounder, i am a branch manager in Eco Bank of Ghana Limited, First Light branch Accra. I am a Ghanaian married, but my wife dead
nine months ago,she left me with two kids.

However I am writing to request for your honest assistance to help me receive the sum of US$7, 750.000.00 million Dollar into your private bank account. This fund was what i discovered in my branch as operational profit last two years{2006} as a result of my hard work and commitment to service
last 2 years (2006) I have already submitted an approved(2006 & 2007) End of the Year financial report to my Head Office here in Accra Ghana.

Moreover, this amount that i want you to receive for me is an excess fund in my own branch of the bank and my senior directors do not know anything about this excess fund in my branch and they will never ever know about it. Since then i placed this money(US$7,750.000.00). on a SUSPENSE ACCOUNT
that is not reactivated, dormant account without any beneficiary for now.

As a branch manager I cannot be directly connected to this money, this is the reason why I want your assistance to receive this money into your our private bank account in your country, i will direct you on how we can achieve this aim.

However if you can come down here in Ghana it will also help us to see face to face here in my bank, then i will prepare a bank deposit slip in your name and direct you on how to go to my head office and withdraw this fund after i must have installed your name and your basic informations in my
banks customers computer database system as the original depositor of this cash, after the withdrawal of this fund from my head office you will take your share and i will take my share.

I intend to part 40% of this fund to you while 57% shall be for me, and percent(3%) shall be for expenses like your coming down here or any other thing that comes up, I also want you to know that there is no single risk involved in this business. It is going to be a bank-to-bank transfer to your
nominated bank account anywhere you feel safer in this world, this is if you can not come down here in Ghana, but if you wish to come i will provide visa for you to come.

All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund. If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response. Also you can forward your private phone number for speedy relation on this matter. Remember l am still working in this bank, your confidentiality is needed in
this transaction. Please trust and honest is the watchword of this our transaction.

Thanks and best regards,
Mr. Larry Wounder
PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW
tplarrywounder@yahoo.co.jp


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