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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.
• 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.
  • kendoe_j@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • kendoe112@mighty.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: BradyNet <bradynet@bradynet.com>
Reply-To: kendoe_j@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 10:47:45 -0400
Subject: Need Your Asistance

Greetings from your friend (kendoe_j@yahoo.co.in) and
BradyNet (http://www.bradynet.com/)

Your friend forwarded the following article from our web site. Reponses
to this letter will be directed to that address.

You can see this article online at http://www.bradynet.com/group.html

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COMMENTS:
HELLO

PLEASE PERMIT ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF AS KENNETH DOE THE SON TO THE ONE TIME EX PRESIDENT OF CENTRAL BANK OF KENYA BY NAME JERMAINE DOE WHO WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED BY THE REBELS DURING THIS RECENT WAR THERE IN MY COUNTRY

MY MAIN AIM OF CONTACTING YOU THIS DAY IS TO INFORM YOU OF THE FUNDS DEPOSITED BY MY FATHER IN A BANK HERE IN GHANA THAT WORTH ABOUT $12.5M USD WHICH I NEED TO TRANSFER ABROAD FOR INVESTMENT

PLEASE BEFORE MY FATHER DIED HE PLACED A WORD UNDER THE FUNDS THAT UNTIL AM 30YRS OLD BEFORE THE FUNDS CAN BE RELEASED TO ME OR UNTIL I CAN FIND A FOREIGN BENEFICIARY THAT CAN HELP ME INVEST THIS FUNDS OUTSIDE AFRICA OR I GET MARRIED THEN THEY SHOULD RELEASE THE FUNDS DEAR RIGHT NOW I AM JUST 22YRS , A SCHOOL DROP OUT DUE TO THE FACT THAT I CAN NO LONGER PAY MY SCHOOL FEES AS WELL AS MY KID SISTER TOO.
Reply to kendoe112@mighty.co.za

PLEASE I AM CALLING ON YOUR ASSISTANCE TO HELP US TRANSFER THESE FUNDS TO YOUR ACCOUNT AS I HAVE AGREED TO GIVE TO YOU %30 FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE, THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON.


PLEASE HELP US
MAY GOD BLESS YOU AMEN


THANKS KENNETH
FOR CHILDREN
Reply to kendoe112@mighty.co.za

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