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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • paul_petersern56@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "PAUL PETERSERN" <paul_petersern56@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:34:25 +0000
Subject: TRANSACTION

Dear Sir,

Do not be surprised about receiving this utmost confidential offer from
somebody you do not know. It is as a result of the urgency and nature
of the business that made me to contact you in thismanner.
My name is Mr.Paul Petersern, a Ghanaian National & a senior
bank officer with one of the leading banks in Ghana. I am writing
this memo following an immense opportunity in my office that will be
of benefit to us all.

After going through some old files in the record books, we discovered
some large amount of funds of US$ 14.5M (Fourteen Million five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) lodge in the account of a foreign business
man. The owner of this account is MR MORRIS THOMPSON, a foreigner from
U.S.A; He was a contractor/consultant to KRUGER MINING (SA)INC a South
Africa Government Own Mining Company.

He died in an air crash along with his family (wifeand only daughter) in
Feb 4th, 2000 in an Alaska Airlines Flight 261 with other passengers on
board. You can confirm this from the website below from publisher by
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
and this site for profile
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as
well that his company does not know anything about this
private account in Ghana. I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money cannot be approved to a local Bank here, but can only be
approved to any foreign account because the money is in US Dollars and
the diseased owner of the account is Mr. Morris Thompson is a foreigner
too.
If we do not remit these funds out urgently it would be forfeited for
nothing to the Government. Our constraint is to be able to source
an honest and trustworthy individual, to whom we can remit these
funds and act as trustee pending our visit.

I can guarantee you, my colleagues and I are in the position to make
this opportunity fruitful, provided you can give us the
assurance and guarantee that our share will be secured and this deal
is 100% risk free, keep it confidential. Visualize this one time opportunity
as
an indirect financial resource; also your area of specialization is
not a hindrance. Kindly contact me by my private email
paul_petersern56@gawab.com
upon your willingness to assisting us.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Paul Petersern.

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