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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: dennis kwame <mr_kwamedd@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:34:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: VERY URGENT


>From The Desk Of Mr Dennis Kwame
Tel:00233 243 646 045.
Delivery of $80millionusd.

Hello Sir,


How are you,hope all is treating you and you family well over ther in your country,so thanks to God.

My aim of writing you this mail is that i want you to be of better help to me by rcieving my consignment for me in your country as my foreign beneficiary as well.

Let me introduce my self to you for you to know whom you are dealing with,My name is Mr.Dennis Kwame and am a family man of one wife and two kid am also a contractor with the (G.P.M.C) Ghana petroluem marketing company.Sir i want you to know that there is a contract awarded to me by the federal government of my country and the money which is meant for the contract is over paid.

After concluding the contract i was still left with some huge amount of money and i want you to please stand as the foreign to the fund so that the fund can be delivered to you through diplomatic process cos the consignment is already with the diplomatic comapny who are willing to delivered the fund to you in your country at your doorstep.

Sir by so doing i have decided that am going to give you 40% of the total fund soon as the diplomat have arrive there in your country,i also want you to please update me with a lucrative business which am going to invest on cos i and my family will becoming to your
country to invest and to spent the rest of our life there in your country.

I want you to please confirm your detail to me so that i can be able to send it to my attorney for him to get the document obtain in your name as my foreign beneficiary which will empower you to have the legal right to make claim of the consignment soon as the diplomat arrive there in your country.

Required Detail.
1)Your full name
2)Your residential address
3)your tel and your fax number
4)your international passport.

Soon as this is recieve am going to forward it to my attorney for him to contact you and get the document obtained in your favour so that you can
be able to have all legal right to make claim of the consignment.

Sir i want you to know that this transaction should be treated with uttermost confidentiality and trust cos you are the only one i have inform about this transaction.

I do await your response.


Thanks and God bless you.

Best Regard.

Mr.Dennis Kwame
You can call me to confirm.00233 243 646 045.

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