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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • johnmensah_ghanacombank@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: ros kome <ros1986kome@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:25:05 +0100 (BST)
Subject: THIS IS REAL, PLS. CONTACT THE BANKER.





Dear Madras,

Thank you for your email to me, i am very happy to hear from you.
This is real. Please i want you to send me your number to call you so that both of us can hear from each other then i will send to you all the documents that were issued to my late father by Ghana Commerical Bank the time he deposited the money. From there you too can contact the bank Directly for guaidline on how you can help. I have been going to the bank but my late father left instructions with the bank that i must produce a foriegn beneficiary who will help me transfer the funds out side here. If you contact the bank tell the manager that you contacting them in respect of me Miss Rose Kome Daugether of late John Kome who deposited funds in thier bank, who made her daugether as the next of kin.

I have all the documents here with me and will send to you.
Director of International Remittance Department,
Ghana Commercial Bank.
Telephone: + 233 246 495 178.
Email: johnmensah_ghanacombank@yahoo.com
Name: Dr. John Mensah.

After contacting the bank i will send you the documents as soon as possible. Right Now i am in the refugee's camp here in accra ghana. I need your urgent help so that i can leave here to your country.

I look forward to your Urgent Reply.

Thanks,
Yours Truly,
Miss Rose J. Kome


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