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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Franklin Tony Iwere" <frank2callx@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 04:49:21 +0200
Subject: URGENT,HELP PLEASE

Hello dear,
I come to you with due respect and equally with heartful of tears and sorrows since we have not known or met ourselves previously.Please, i mean no harm to you only that i am in a desperate situation and need urgent help. After going through this mail,it will be your decision,whether to help me or to leave me to my faith, but whatever you decide, bear in mind,i am in trouble and need your help. I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through a profile that speaks good of you. I will be so glad if you can allow and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance to my situation.

I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity. I would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. Anyway,
My name is Franklin Tony Iwere. I am the first son of Mr. Ayo Tony Iwere, the leader of the UNITA movement in Angola. May be you know that my father was killed recently in Angola by the Angola Government soldiers and has been buried. Two weeks before he died (May be he know he will die) he called me and showed me a box containing US$ 35 million and some Diamond value about US$18 million. He send the box to a security company overseas in one country in the West, for safe keeping with a false name. He give me the certificate of deposit and the code number. With that I collect the box anytime I want. Now I want because my father is dead and I need the money to take care of my family left behind of about five wives and twenty five children. I am now hiding as the government of Angola look for me to kill and also the former commanders of my father want to get me also. I have to be careful of my movement that is why I need your help to get the box and keep it until I can escape and mee
t you and you help me invest the money in your country or where it is good.i will happy to hear from you.
Franklin

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