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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:
  • "million united state dollars" (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "there are practically no risks involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • mr.lomaxstophe171@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • wunschname@freenet.de

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:07:27 +0200
Subject: THANKS FOR YOUR COOPERATION


THE REGIONAL BRANCH MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK OF
GHANA,
PRIVATE MAIL BAG NO.16, ACCRA GHANA.


Good day,

This is an
electronic mail, and any file(s) transmitted therein is confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. If you have received this email in error, please deleate from
your mail box. For the formality of this transaction I would appreciate
introducing myself, My name is Mr.Lomax Christopher, I am the regional
manager of International Commercial Bank of Ghana Kumasi branch of
Ghana. I got your information in the Internet this morning, On a recent
bank conference with other West African countries held in Lome the
capital city of Togo in West Africa. I write you this proposal in good
faith; I am 47 years old married with Two lovely kids. I am a man of
peace.


I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit
you and me, as the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank
it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the
capital city Accra at the end of each business year. On the course of
2007 business report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the
manager made Seventeen million United State dollars which my head office
are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this funds on
what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary. As an officer of
this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of
contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your bank account
and 30% of the total funds as commission.


There are practically no
risks involved, it will be a bank-to-bank transfer and all I need from
you is to stand and claim as the original depositor of these funds as
who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the
transfer to your designated bank account. If you accept this offer to
work with me, and you find this proposal Suitable for you do furnish me
with the following information:


Full
Name....................
Contact Address....................
Private
Telephone Number.................
Age.............
Occupation and
Position...................

I will appreciate it very much, If this
proposal is acceptable by you, do not make undue advantage of the trust
I have bestowed on you, and I assure you we can achieve it
successfully.

Thank you in advance.

Yours truly,
Mr.Lomax
Stophe
mr.lomaxstophe171@hotmail.com
ICB Financial Group Holdings
AG

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