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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • aishatanko_aisha@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: aisha tanko <aishatanko_aisha@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 19:05:28 +0800 (CST)
Subject: aisha needs help


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

I am a 16 years old girl and the only surviving child of late Ahmed Tanko and late Mrs Mediza Tanko from the Sudan. I lost my father two years ago from excessive bleeding from bullet wounds he sustained when rabells came to our house and shot him and my two brothers dead. my mother later died in the hospital out of high blood pressure and shock where she was taken for treatment. i came to ghana with some of my country people for safety. they were able to drop me with one family in a remote village and decided to move to the city. this family can hardly feed themselves and me joing them is another thing. right now i am seeing myself as another burden to them. they are nice people and they are not complaining. my condition here now is very bad and making it worse is that i dont even go to school anymore. this family canot afford to send me to school because even the school fees for their children is not paid for because they are in primary school while im in the secondary school. i have to come out to town to
day and send you this email to see if you can be kind and help me. the little money i have with me is what is left from the pocket money i was given by the people that brought me here. i know that here is better than home as there is no shooting and killing here but i am still suffering.

please help in anyway you can either sending me some clothes, or some money, so that i can leave here immediately because here is not good for me at all due to poor living condition. i like to go back to school and study.

please have some mercy on me and help me. right now, i dont have any family and you are the only hope. i am sorry to be inconveniencing you with my condition.

God bless you and your family.






- aisha tanko

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