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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:
  • "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Ofori Robert <rofori70@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: rbsome40@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:13:16 +0100 (BST)
Subject: I will appreciate your timely response


To Managing Director,

Sir,

Compliment of the day to you, although you may be skeptical receiving this email as we have not meet before, I have come to share an advice with you, to facilitate what I have in position in my company.

I am Ofori Robert chief store keeper of Apex Cargo Ltd here in Ghana West Africa, few months ago, one of our politician and also a presidential candidate here in Ghana convey to us two sealed cartoon contained united state of America dollars, but he declared the two cartoon officially as a carbon paper he want to export for his office in America.

Since I am inspection officer / packaging, I discovered I was dollars, immediately he call on attention and dialoged with me, hence he stated in two months time consignment remain one cartoon to bring before load’ I safe guided the two cartoon in our strong room warehouse and he gave me telephone number.

After one month I decided to call him, I discovered that the voice was not his voice, it was his uncle, and simple he told that Dr Francis Addo was murdered to death by the hooligans on land dispute.

No matter how gloriously one decorates a lie, it will always fail the credibility test. I was at the seen on his funeral day; I need someone to help me move these funds out of my company on percentage ratio.

For confidentiality I will like to discuses the rest of it on the phone with you, once you are for help out call +233-246-690-871 for more information, since this transaction has nothing to do with documents.

I will appreciate your timely response.

Mr Ofori Robert.


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