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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:
  • "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 orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "ISAAC MARTINS" <isaacmartins79@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: isaacmartins79@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:32:58 +0000
Subject: RELPY

From Mr.Isaac Martins
Country-Sieera Leone
Presently in Buduburam
Refugee camp Accra
Ghana Africa.

Dear ,
I am Isaac Martins the only son of the late Chief Martins Opong of tungo
district sieera leone.i got your contact through your chamber of commerce of
directoy.Although i have not met you before,i want to take you into
confidence because of your position.I am counting on your honesty
trustworthness and reliability on this issue i am about to disclose to you.I
want you to treat this issue as confidential and with urgency.My late father
Chief Martins Opong,was until his death the Chairman of the national diamond
mining corporation free-town sieera leone.Unfortunately for us,he was among
the eleven prominent civilians executed by the incumbant embattle
president,Ahmed Tejan Kabbah in 1991 before the war broke out in our
country.they were wrongly accused of trading state diamond gem to sponsor
the former dictator major Paul Johnny Koromah to host democratic government
in sieera leone.they were tried in a military tribunal and executed.

How are you? Hope all is well with you. I thank God for his blessing. I wish
to inform you that we really need to be serious with this transaction
because it will improve our life standard and for me and my mother, it is
our last hope of survival.so, please for God’s seek, let”s be serious and
execute this transaction it is giving, I and my mother sleepless night,
these days. Please try all you can to help us claim out our family belonging
from security company, we are poor refugee.

please we want you to call the security company urgent and tell them that
you are a good friend of my late father. Contents of the boxes, he only told
them that the boxes contains family valuable documents. Then we will claim
the boxes from the security company and move the boxes to the bank, where we
opened the domiciliary account and pay the money into the
acccount.thereafter you will instruct the bank to transfer the money from
that account to your account overseas (maybe in your country or else where)
.

Dear good friend it is very important to note that, when my late father
deposited the boxes, which one box contains ($15.million us dollars) And the
second box contains(RAW GOLD WITH DIAMOND) with the security company, he did
not tell/discuss to the security company the really contents of the boxes.
He only told them that the boxes contains family belongings, and that the
boxes belongs to his foriegn friend, who is a foreigner (NON AFRICAN). The
certificates and the keys are with my mother here in the refugee camp.

Upon your acceptance to help us please notify me on what will be your
percentage after the execution of this transaction.and also your assurance
that you will never betray us or run away with our life hope after you have
recieved this boxes in your country successfully and peacefully as the
rightful beneficiary to the boxes.for more assurance we will need your
direct cell number to be talking with you.

Thanks and God bless you and your beloved family member,hoping to hear your
positve reponse regards our need from you.

Yours Sincerely,
Isaac Martins.
For the entire family.

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