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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "Attah Bukari" <attameh12007@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:12:28 +0000
Subject: assistance/investment

Dear Friend,

Thanks for your urgent reply.I don't want you to be surprised about how I
got your contact address, I got your contact from a good samarithan's woman
that worked in ghana chamber of commerce and industries. Though I did not
disclosed the nature of this transaction to her. I told her that I would
need a very capable person that can assist me to further my education in
abroad. You might have heard about rumours that some bad people use the
internet to send out their fraud-mails but I want you to believed that this
is not the kind of that offer and it is not a stolen money from government
account or drug money. There are many fraudulent activities all over in this
world even in america as whole but still I want you to know that there are
many good business in this world, every fake businesses there must be an
original, the only thing is that it is only almighty god that can protect
and direct us to the good ones . This funds is only hope that I have on this
earth and at moment is beyond my reach. I would be very glad if you can be
my foreign guarantor to assist me claim us$5m that deposited with my late
father with a security company. This funds is sealed airtight in a silver
aluminium boxes. My father's didn't registered the contents of this boxes as
funds, he registered it as his family treasury bill for many security
reasons. I am the next of kin to my late father vault account. I contacted
the security company for the claim of my late father's deposited boxes but
due to my underage {26 years old}, the security company are demanded for my
guarantor that will claim the boxes for me to avoid any future controversy
because my father's registered that I should clock 30 years upword before
having access or right to withdraw this boxes. Now what I need from you is
to send me your full name, contact address, personal telephone number so
that I can put in an application letter with this your information and
forawrd to the security company as my foreign guarantor. I will change the
new ownership certificate to your name so that we can have a power of
attorney to athourize the security company to let me withdraw one of the box
that valued us$3m here so that I can take the box to a reputable bank here
and transfer it to your foreign account. If I have access to the box, I will
open an account here in your name and deposited the funds before onward
transfer to your final account in your country. While transfering the funds
we are going to obtain all the necessary certificates/documents that will
proved to your bank and country that the source of this funds in genuine.
This transaction is 100% safe and risk-free. After you might have transfer
the first box that valued us$3m, you will now believed and have 100% trust
and hope in me for us to transfer the second box. You can also come forward
so that we start the transaction together, seen is believing. I want you to
keep this transaction confidentially, because no head that want another head
to be greater than him/her and if they see that this is an opportunity that
will make you be greater than them.

I will be waiting to hear from you soon so that I can tell you what next to
do. I will also send you a deposit certificate for your verifications.
Please reply me through this my confidential e-mail address attameh@o2.pl
for many security reasons.

Best Regards,

Attah Seidu Bukari.

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