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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • revfatherjohnibe@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: amanda mandy <amandamandy2006@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:00:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: susan



Babe

i know it will sound strange to you but it is the whole truth and nothing but the truth. and i am promising you that if only i can trust you,you will never regreat knowing me.i want you to take me as one of your friend or sister,and to take care of my affairs and inheritance.i am sorry to tell you that since the death of my parents i have seen hell.


it was september last two year that one of them came with my late fathers friend claiming that my father was owing him.you see,there is no how i can pay for what i knew nothing about.

i told my uncle that i dont know what they were talking about.i also told my uncle that my father did not have any money in the bank. when i came to dakar senegal,i meet a rev.father and i told him about my life and about the money my late father deposited in a Bank he asked me of the deposit certificate and i gave it to him,he has been like a father to me and he takes care of mine feedind even before writing you i told him.

he is a rev,Pastors of Christ The Head of All Churches. The Pastors Tel number is (00221 683 4725) OR HIS EMAIL ADDRESS revfatherjohnibe@yahoo.com if you call and tell him that you want to speak with me he will send for me in the hostel. As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilledge to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country.


I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the traggic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.Please listen to this,i have my late father's statement of account and death certificate here with me which i will send to you latter,because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading bank here in senegal which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is $3.5M(Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars). So i will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from it you can send some money for me to get my travelling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you.I kept this secret to people in the camp here the only person that knows about it is the Revrend because he is like a father to me now.

So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it. Remember i am giving you all this information dueto the trust i deposed on you.


I like honest and understanding people,truthful, what i need from you is, for you to see that the money is transfered to a good account and also to make arrengment on how i will come over and stay with you and continue my life and education. my choosing you is a question i knew you must ask and i think it is a good question.i have two reasons for choosing you, i choosed you because it is the will of God.and i believe knowing you will bring hope back again to my life.


my choosing you does not mean i do not have anybody from africa.i have two uncles,that is my late fathers junior brothers whom i think are suppose to be taking care of me but they do not care,all they did was to sell my late fathers houses and company to one mr olson steven from united states and enjoy the money with their wives. i wanted to tell olson about it but should my uncles know of the money,they can kill me ,so as to eat the money,it was as if my father saw their dead because he told the implication of having a big money in africa and that was the reason,he made the deposit here in senegal

the day a wrote you first,i picked up three address from a date site and i prayed over it with my rev,father.he broth the pieces of papper and wrote the three email address in it and fold it,he ask me to pick one and i picked your email address,then i decided to write you and i also believe that it is the will of God. I do not have a phone but you can reach me on the Revs number. have a wouderful day, thanks waiting to hear for you soon. yours forever in love,



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