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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "million us 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)
  • ",000,000" (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 orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Evan Philip Jr" <evanphilip1@livedoor.com>
Reply-To: evanphilipjr@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:35:33 +0100
Subject: FROM EVAN PHILIP Jr.


*Dear Friend,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot be
able to see you face to face at first.I am Evan Philip Being the only son of
my late father Mr.Paul Philip from Sierra-Leone Africa (WA)I am 22years of
age. My father was limited liability Diamond and Gold merchant in Freetown
Sierra-Leone before his untimely death. After his business trip to Benin to
nagociate on a good investment business he wanted to invest in Benin.

A week after he came back from Benin , he got an accident with my mother of
which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a
private hospital on that faithful afternoon, I didn?t know that my father
was going to leave me after I had lost my mother,but before he gave up the
ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.

He my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclosed to me that
he deposited sum of $22,000,000,00 US Dollars (TWENTY TWO MILLION US
DOLLARS) in a security company here in Benin That the money was meant for
his Diamond and Gold company he wanted to establish in Benin
though,according to my father he deposited the money in a trunk box but
declared it as vital family belongings.

He single handed me the key of the box and the deposit certificate and
instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for
my life time investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating the
security company here in Benin also confirmed the items with most honest and
confidentiality. Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me lift
this money out from Benin to your safe account abroad so that we should
invest it in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this
is my only hope in life.

I am willing to offer you 25% of the total fund if only you can help me out
of my present predicament.Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so thatwe can
discuss the modalities of this transaction.

I await your immediate response.

Yours sincerely.
Evan Philip Jr.
*

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