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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:
  • "the consignment" (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 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.
  • ksando@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: kennedy tommy <kennedy.sando@web.de>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:13:37 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL




Attn:<=3Fxml:namespace prefix =3D o ns =3D "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:off=
ice" /><o:p></o:p>

<o:p></o:p>

My name is Mr. Kennedy Sando, I hail from the Federal Republic of Ghana, 4=
1 years, married with three children. I am the Director of Global Security=
& Finance Services Limited, South Africa. I got the information concernin=
g you from the Internet and after due consideration, I decided to contact =
you believing that by the Grace of God, that you will not disappoint me ov=
er this deal.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p></o:p>

I have been working with this company for over fifteen years. Within this =
period, and I have watched with meticulous precision how African Heads of =
State and Government functionaries have been using Global Security & Finan=
ce Ltd to move sums of money USD, Pounds Sterling, French Francs (cash) to=
their foreign partners. They bring in these consignments of cash and secr=
etly declare the contents as jewelleries, gold, diamonds, precious stones,=
family treasures, and documents etc. Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (dead), Ge=
n. Sanni Abacha of Nigeria (dead), Fode Sankoy of Sierra Leone, Babangida =
of Nigeria, Felix Houphet Boigny of Cote d"Ivoire (dead), Kanan Bedie of C=
ote d"Ivoire (Abidjan) etc. All these people have many consignments deposi=
ted with my office. <o:p></o:p>

<o:p></o:p>

Their foreign partners, friends and relatives are claiming most of these c=
onsignments. A lot of them are lying here unclaimed for as much as eight y=
ears. Nobody will ever come for them because in most cases, the certificat=
es of Deposit are never available to anybody except the depositors or me s=
ince most of
them are dead. I have through the instrumentality of Global Security & Fin=
ance re-deposited all these unclaimed and overstayed consignment into the =
Vault Facility of a reputable Security Company in Europe. Since the incept=
ion of the year 2000, our company's management has changed the procedure o=
f claims of consignment, as soon as you are able to produce the secret inf=
ormation as contained in the secret file of any consignment, it will be re=
leased to you upon demand.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p></o:p>

I have finalized every arrangement for you to claim consignment No. 1401, =
1402 containing $13.7 Million. (Thirteen Million seven hundred Thousand) I=
will supply you with all the information and documents that will facilita=
te your easy claim of the consignment. Upon your positive reply of this le=
tter, I will furnish you with further details and information regarding th=
e modus operandi for the execution of the transaction. This business is ri=
sk free as I have taken necessary preventive measures. (The mode of sharin=
g will be 50-50), you can reach me by email and I will direct you on what =
to do and also l like you to furnish me with
your full name and your confidential phone and fax number(s) for easy reac=
h. Please copy your reply to: ksando@sify.com<o:p></o:p>

<o:p></o:p>

Please expedite action.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p></o:p>

Yours faithfully,<o:p></o:p> Mr. Kennedy Sando.


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