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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• 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.
  • christfirst2010@yahoo.com
  • christingomeh@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: christygomb@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 11:30:03 +0200
Subject: Hello

Dear Friend,

How are you today?
I am writing this letter in confidence believing that if it
is the will of God for you to help me and my family, God
almighty will bless and reward you aboundantly and you
would never regreat this.
I'm Christiana Gombeh, female student from University of South Africa,
I am 25 years old. I would like to build up a solid relationship with you
in time coming if you can be able to help me in this transaction.
Well, my father Jerry Gombeh, he died earlier two months ago and left I and
my yonger brother behind. He was a king, which our town
citizens titled him over sixteen years before his death.
I’m a princess to him and I am the only person who can take
care of his wealth now because my younger brother is still
young and my mother is not literate enough to know all my
father's wealth. He left the sum of USD 8.350, 000.00
dollars (Eight Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand US
Dollars) in a security company in South Africa. This money
was annually paid into my late fathers account from
Shell Petroleum Development Company (S.P.D.C) and chevron
oil company operating in our locality for the compensation
of youth and community development in our
country (Sao Tome and Principe, Western Africa, islands in
the Gulf of Guinea).
We are correntlly living in South Africa as a refugee.
I don't know how and what I will do to invest this money
somewhere in abroad, so that my father's kindred will not
take over what belongs to my father and our family, which
they were planning to do without my present because I am a
female as stated by our culture.
I urgently need your humble assistance to move this money from the security
company to your bank account and I strongly believe that by
the grace of God,
you will help me invest this money wisely.
I am ready to give you some part of the total amount, if
you help us in this transaction.
If you can handle this project sincerely,
kindly reach me this e-mail address:
christfirst2010@yahoo.com or christingomeh@aim.com


Yours sincerely,
Christiana Gombeh

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