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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "million dollars" (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)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • kobaneto@jmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: newmankelvin@freenet.de
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:19:28 +0100
Subject: request for your assistance in the management and administration of my late father's estate


Please permit me to request for your assistance in the management and
administration of my late
father\'s estate. May I intimate you that I
got your contact from business desk of Chamber of commerce and industry
here in England. BACKGROUND My name is Koba Neto from Angola, the son
and only
child of lateBrigadier General Augustus Neto of the Angola
army. I am currently residing in Coventry refugee camp, England as a
political asylum seeker.
My late father in his WILL specifically
mentioned that he deposited the Sum of $18.6 million dollars in a box

which he kept with a bank here in England and he mandated the bank to
release this box to me on condition that a reliable, sincere and God
fearing foreign PARTNER. Be contacted and involved in the management
of
the funds.Please note that for your effort in the discharge of this
transaction,25% of the total sum is offered. Please furnish me with
your private telephone
number for more effective communication.
Please
for security reason reply only to my private email
kobaneto@jmail.co.za
Best regards,

Koba Neto.

Anti-fraud resources:

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