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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.zambli otumba" <zambliotumba8@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: zambliotumba@walla.com
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:26:10 -0700
Subject: urgent

Attn:

Sir,

First and foremost, I must solicit your
strictest confidence in this transaction and I pray
that my decision to contact you will be given genuine
approval considering the facts we have not known each
other before; I wish to use this opportunity to
introduce myself to you. I am (zambli otumba) from
Liberia, West Africa. I write to inform you of my
desire to invest, and to buy a living house in your
country. I am the first son of Mr. Opong otumba; my
father was a diamond/gold merchant in my country.My
father had a bullet shot by the rebels on his way
traveling out of my country with two of my younger
sister's due to present crisis that is occurring in
our country (Liberia). My sister's died on the spot
while UN peacemaker, keeping force rescued my father,
and he was taken to hospital for medical treatment,
which he later died. Before he died he revealed to me
and my mother about the box containing: some raw gold
and $15.5 million, (fifteen million and five hundred
thousand us dollars). Which he deposited with a
security company in Ghana for safekeeping. My father
did not disclose the content of the box to the
security company to avoid the officials from raising
eyebrows to the funds. Presently my mother and myself
are here in Ghana to notify the security company for
the claims, we are here as refugees . Therefore I
want you to come down here in ghana and be our
beneficairy to this funds and withdraw this funds out
from the security company as the direct beneficiary of
this consignment and direct me on how best we can
invest this money, because my father told me that it
is dangerous to invest this money in Africa to avoid
suspicions, and due to market instability coupled with
economic and political instability facing African
count rise, that is why we want to invest inAbroad.
For your mutual assistance, my mother and myself have
agreed to offer you 25% of the total amount of the
money. We have all the vital documents covering the
deposit and the ownership, which I can send to you
through fax on request.Note: I will like you to keep
this as confidentail as ever.Forward to me your fax
and phone or mobile numbers for easy
cominications.Waiting for your urgent response.


Best
regards,


Mr. zambli otumba(For the entire family)



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