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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Andrea Kelly" <an_bll@mail.win.it>
Reply-To: <an_blll@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:31:48 -0700
Subject: Re: Further lnformation.

DEAR VICTIM-FULLNAME,
Thank you very much for your mail. I am glad to receive your reply,
I want to let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free. As soon
as the money is moved to you, i shall be coming down to your country
so that we can go into business venture. I would want you to know that
this fund is currently in the security firm in Ghana. However it is deposited
in a trunk box. It was moved there from my country as a diplomatic luggage.

All that is required is contacting the security firm on my behalf, requesting
them to transfer the luggage. The reason is that I am presently on exile and
such I do not have the political status to make such claims.You can as well send
your call phone number so i can as well call you for more info: And I'm sending to
you the document given to me while i was depositing the luggage. It is called the
Certificate of Deposit. I have also attached a photograph of the trunk box.
please note that this must be kept secret as the security company official does
not know that the content of the trunk is money. Please give me more information
about yourself

1) Your age.

2) Your occupation.

3) Your full name

4)Your private telephone (cell land line) and fax number.

5) your full contact address

So that i can give you the contact tof the sceiruty company

Yours Faithfully
Andrew Bell



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