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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:

• 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.
  • francis_kwame24@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: francis kwame <francis_kwame02@mail.ru>
Reply-To: francis_kwame24@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:20:52 -0800
Subject: please get back to me


How is every things with you over there , hope God is in control ,I am
francis kwame from Ghana, west Africa and I'm 26 years old .
Please I want to ask if you can assist to get some of my
father's funds in the bank here, I mean he
deposited it before his dead,the contents is two hundred
kilo of raw gold and two million united state dollars and
he used my name at the next of kin , I have all the
documents concern of the deposit of the funds with me now,
our lawyer told me to look for a foreigner to assists to
get this funds out from the bank here to
oversea.
So if you can please just get back to me for more
information with this telephone number please 00233 208263579 or this email here francis_kwame24@yahoo.com .
Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards ,
francis kwame

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