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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 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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • emomoh01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Emmanuel Momoh <emomoh01@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: emmamomoh01@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:23:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Good Day,


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: emomoh01@yahoo.com

From The Desk of Prince Emmanuel Momoh,

Contact: +233-2090-38828,

Fax: 02090-38828,

Email: emmamomoh@organizer.ro



Dear Friend,



First I must solicit your strictest confidence in this

transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you

will be given genuine approval considering the facts

you and I just meet in the net but with your attention

you sound so good to me, I wish to use this

opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am Emmanuel

Momoh from Sierra-Leone.



I write to know my desires to invest in your country.

I am the first son of William A. Momoh, who was the

former Minister Of Mines and Energy. My father had a

bullet wounds by the rebels on his way traveling to

the Capital city Freetown along with my sister. My

sister died on the spot while U.N Peace keeping force

rescued my father, he later died after eleven months.



Before his death he told to me about the box

containing $18 million U.S Dollars to look after my

self and my Mother and shouldn’t go to Sierra-Leone

for my safety, why my father deposit the fund in the

security company is for safety of the fund,

Presently, my mother and I are here in Ghana to

notify the security company for the claims for the

FUND, and we are staying in the refugee camp.

Therefore I want you to lecture me on how best we can

invest this money in your country and as I told you I

really wanted to buy a house when I come there.

My father told me it is dangerous to invest this money

in Africa to avoid suspicious, and due to with the

economic and political instability facing Africa

countries that is why I want to invest in abroad.



For your foreign assistance I and my mother have

agreed to offer 15% of the total amount of the money.

We have all the vital documents covering the deposit

fund and the ownership which I can send to you through

fax on request.



NOTE: I have never disclosed this to any person apart

from you, so you have to keep this matter very

confidential. Send me your Private phone and fax

numbers for more information.



Reach me on my private Email: emmamomoh@organizer.ro

Phone No: +233-2090-38828.



Best Regards,




- Emmanuel Momoh

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