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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:
  • "good day friend" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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.
  • terry.johnson18@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: terry.johnson18@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:24:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL!!!


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:terry.johnson010@yahoo.com.ve



- Good Day Friend,My name is Terry Johnson, I am 40 Years of age. I am the Manager of security & finance company in Amsterdam, Holland. After due consideration, I decided to contact you believing that you will not disappoint me over this deal. I have been working with this company for over fifteen years. Within this period, I have watched with meticulous precision how African Heads of state and Government functionaries have been using security & finance company to moved sums of money in USD, (cash) to their foreign partners.They bring in these consignments of cash and secretly declared the contents as jewelries, family belongings and documents etc. Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (dead), Gen. Sanni Abacha of Nigeria (dead), President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo (dead), Fode Sankoy of Sierra Leone, Felix Houphet Boigny of Cote d'Ivoire (dead), Kanan Bedie of Cote d'Ivoire (Abidjan) etc. Their foreign partners and relatives are claiming most of these consignments. A lot of them are lying here unclaimed for as much as eight years. Nobody will ever come for them because in most cases, the Certificate of Depositors is never available to anybody except the depositors or me since most of them are dead. I have through security & finance re-deposited all these unclaimed and overstayed consignment into the Vault Facility of a reputable Security Company in Europe.Since the inception of the year 2005, our company's management has changed the procedure of claims of consignment, as soon as you are able to produce the secret information as contained in the secret file of any consignment, it will be released to you upon demand. I have finalized every arrangement for you to claim consignment No. 1401, 1402 containing $30 Million. (Thirty Million USD) I will supply you with all the information and documents that will facilitate your easy claim of the consignment. Upon your positive reply of this letter, I will furnish you with further details and information regarding the execution of this transaction. This business is risk free as I have taken necessary preventive measures. The mode of sharing will be (50-50), you can reach me by email and I will direct you on what to do. l like you to furnish me with your full name, contact address, your private phone number/fax number and a photo copy of your international Passport, Drives license or ID card for easy reach. Please expedite action and send your response to me now through my private email address (terry.johnson18@gmail.com) for more details Yours sincerely,Mr. Terry Johnson.

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