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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)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • jkjf1980@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "jkjf1980@terra.es" <jkjf1980@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 00:11:44 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: A Call for Partnership Investment.


Hello Dear,

I got your contact and decided to contact you for a business that will be of mutual benefit to you and us. My name is John Kumara Fornah, from Sierra Leone, but i and my mother are presently in Accra Ghana in a refugge camp here.
My Late father before his death left some deposited trunk box which contains the amount of $32M with a security company for safety.
My father secretly declared the trunk box as to be containing family treasures instead of raw cash, i intend to enter into a partnership with you, to invest this money in your firm/country.
We shall present you to the security company as my late father`s foreign business partner so that the metalic trunk box be released and the money transferred to your country for proper investment which you will advise.

I will furnish you with details of my family and more about the transaction, if you are interested kindly reply back to enable me send you the details.

Yours Truly
John Kumara Fornah
Tel:+233243654410
jkjf1980@yahoo.com





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