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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: "Jeremiah Johnson"<jeremiah03@msn.com>
Reply-To: <jeremiah51Johnson@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:27:50 +0100
Subject: Urgent and Confidential.

Attn;Sir/Madam

My name is Mr.Jeremiah Johnson.I work with well known reputable bank in Ghana as a Audit Account clerk in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

As an audit account clerk in the bank, I have access to a lot of documents because I handle some of the bank's sensitive files.

On my course of duty recently I discovered $7.820 Million United States Dollars in our bank's escrow call account with no beneficiary.That means my bank has lost record of its owner.

I can give you information of the account and put in your name in the account details as the beneficiary/next-of-kin of the account. So you can contact them and tell them you are the beneficiary of the money so they should transfer it to your country's account.

My bank will believe you because your proof is your ability to know the account details and with your name already in the bank's record as a beneficiary they will transfer this amount without questioning.

After you get the money, we will share in the ratio 60% to me and 40% to you simple. It is a straight forward deal.

Contact me for more details on my private line +233204939266,

I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me.

I am eagerly anticipating your swift response Regards,

Jeremiah Johnson

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