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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (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)
• 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.
  • beck4good0@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: beck4good <beck4goodm9@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: beck4good0@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:39:34 +0900 (JST)
Subject: urgent pls open & read carefully

From Becky & Mike Tanaba
Of Sierra Leone
West Africa.
Email: beck4good0@hotmail.com


Please I know this mail, may come to you as a great surprise, but please do try and take your time to read it carefully, because i have no other intension of contacting you rather than for us to become a life business partner.

Please if some one wants to invest in your country by building hotels there, what is your advice or is there any other good business that you may prefer?

I am Becky Tanaba from sierra Leone but now in Ghana with my brother.

We lost our parents due to the war out break in Sierra Leone years ago, now we are orphan.

My father kept the sum of 8 million USD (dollars) in
security company here in Ghana with my name as the Next of Kin, when he
was dealing on gold and diamond business before he died.

Before my father died, he deposited these items in the name of family treasure, i mean family precious items. the security company did not know that it was money that was in the trunk boxes

We need you as our foreign partner to stand as the beneficiary (foreign business partner) to me and my brother as a trustee in oversee, to invest and manage this fund for us on viable forms of investment in overseas

I and my brother decided to give out 25% (Percent) on your assistant, if you can help us stand as our foreign investor and beneficiary to retreive and move this funds out from hear to oversease, where by I and my Brother will come and join you and stay there for the rest of our life.

Private email beck4good0@hotmail.com

Regard
Becky & mike john Tanaba




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