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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 orphan scam.
• 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.
  • mich_kengh@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MICHEAL KENNEDY BAAH" <michken@katamail.com>
Reply-To: michealkennedy@ig.com.br
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 02:56:03 +0100
Subject: WITH TRUST

Dear Respectful,

Warm greetings to you and your family in the name of our lord jesus
christ. I am Micheal Kennedy Baah the only son of late Mr and Mrs.
Baah. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Ghana,my father was
poisoned to death by his business associates
on one of their outings on a business trip.

My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me
so special. Before the death of my father on
January 2006 in a private hospital here in Accra he secretly called
me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Ten million ,five
hundred thousand United State Dollars.USD($10.500,000) left for
safe-keeping with a security company here in Accra ,that he used my
name as his
only son for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he
was poisoned by his business associates. That I should seek for a
foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money
and use it for investment purpose such.

Now, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be
transferred to .

(2) To serve as a guardian and foreign co-beneficiary of this fund
since Iam only 22 years.

(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your
country to further my education and to secure resident permit in

your country. I am willing to offer you a percentage of the total sum as
compensation for your effort/input after the transfer.

Thank you for your signify interest to assist me. Hoping
to hear from you soon through my confidential email address

(mich_kengh@hotmail.com)

May God bless you and preserve our friendship in good faith.

Best regards
Micheal Baah Kennedy

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