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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • manoahganga.1511@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mr.manoah.ganga Gazeta.pl" <mr.manoah.ganga@gazeta.pl>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 10:54:27 +0200
Subject: Hello Friend


DIRECTOR,AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
ECO-BANK LOME-TOGO.

Dear Friend,

I am MR.MANOAH GANGA , Director and Chief of Accountant for the Bills and
Credits in the Foreign Remittance Department section of ECO-BANK.Lome-Togo
in West Africa.

I got your contact through an international web directory,Your profile made
me to contact you because I was searching for a reliable and trustwordthy
person who can not betray me, because I have been praying to my God to
direct me to the rightful person to entrust this fund to.

There was one of our client Mr.John BRIANT, A United States Citizen Who died
on 29 January 2002 in a plane crash which also claimed the life of his only
child, Who untill death was the next of kin to the fathers money in our bank
ECO-BANK.

I am the only director that knows his bank's information, because he use to
be my good friend when he was alive,He left about (US$5.5Million)in his
account.

At this juncture I want to transfer this US$5.5Million into the account you
wish to nominate. I will do the paper work here claiming that you are the
next of kin to this client, and that you want to transfer the sum into your
account abroad.

The service of an Attorney will be needed to seal everything and to change
the data and information in his file so as to enable us transfer it swiftly.
If we employ the service of a highly Accredited Lawyer that means it will
take us only 8-10 working days to transfer this money into your nominated
account.

He will arrange for the affidavit of support from Ministry of Justice
claiming that you are the right beneficiary of this fund. I will give you
30% of the total sum of the US$5.5Million for assisting me 5% expencess that
will come out in this transation 5% will be donate to the charity.

Contact me in my private e-mail;(manoahganga.1511@rediffmail.com)

The transaction is 100% free risk.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.MANOAH GANGA.


N.B: PLEASE FORWARD TO ME YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE ANDFAX NUMBER INCASE I
NEEDURGENT CONVERSATION WITH YOU

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