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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "JERRY GORDON" <jjerygordon71@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mr816me@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:24:12 +0000
Subject: Transaction

>From Jerry Gordon

I am well confident of your capability of executing this business for the
mutual benefit of our both families, believing that you will not expose or
betray the trust and confident I am about to repose on you.

I am contacting you with the greatest delight and personal respect. I am
Jerry Gordon, the first son of CHIEF K.S.GORDON former minister of Mineral
Resources of the Republic of Sierra-Leone who was recently murdered by the
Forces Loyal to Corporal Foday Sankoh, due to his support to the incumbent
elected President Tejan Kabbah to remain in the office as reported on the
cable Network News (CNN) and by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Few days before my father was assassinated,he confided in me and ordered me
to go to his underground safe and moved out immediately with the deposit
agreements and cash receipt he made with a Security Company in LOME TOGO
where he deposited one trunk box which contains
Ninety six million US dollars.($96 MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY).

I succcessfully smuggled out of the country to LOME-TOGO with the help of
some rebels loyal to My father and have gone to the Security Company with
the deposit Documents to confirm the deposit myself.

Unknown to the Security company my father declared the contents of the trunk
box as African Artworks belonging to his foreign partner, that the keys are
with him in order to prevent them from knowing the real content of the box.

I am now seeking for your direct assistance to front you as the owner of the
consignment and lift the fund out of this country to your base for onward
profitable investment which necessitated my contacting you.

Further detail will be made known to you on confirmation of your interest to
assist me towards this project. You will also comfirm to me that no third
party should hear about this transaction.



May God bless you and your entire family,expecting your immediate response.


Best Regards,
Jerry Gordon

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