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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:
  • "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 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.
  • johnsonkossui@inbox.lv (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: johnson kossui <johnsonkossuii@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: johnsonkossui@inbox.lv
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:26:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Please Your Immediate Attention Needed: Highly Confidential


In briefintroduction, Iam Johnson Kossui and my younger sister Rose
we are the children of late Dr Camara Kossui the former Minister of Finance in the Republic of Sierra Leone. After going through your profile when we was searching for a reliable and trustworthy person who can assist us to inverst the sum of $9.400.000 Million US Dollars which was deposited by our father in one of the security company here.He register the box of the money as African ArtWorks meant for export to his foriegn business partner.

We have gone for cliam but according to the security company,we should come forward with a foreign beneficiary so that the box will be release on his or her name. this is why we want to disclosing every thing about ourselves to you because we are interested in a long term business relationship with you if you can assist us retreve the box from the security company
13th November 2000,during political crisis in my country Sierra Leone was the day my farther died at the heart of the crisis.

Please feel free to contactus as soon as possible so that we can discuss modalities concerning the transaction.
Hoping to hear from you my privat box johnsonkossui@inbox.lv
regards.
Johnson Kossui



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