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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: iheomachi gaeme <iheomachigaeme@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:59:47 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE


Dear,I got your contact as i was browsing through the websites in search of an honest and trustworthy person,please i know fully well that this mail will be a suprise to you,but seat back and relax because i just brought to you a clean and free transaction for us to share.Now, i do not know the kind of person you are,but anyway i will open up to you and if actually you are the right one to help me out ,then that would be better for both of us,besides its true today that anything can happen,but from my own ends you are rest assured.
Therefore,my aim writting you this mail is for you to help me transfer the sum of 16 million US dollars cash.How? I am miss Iheomachi Gaeme a hair dresser to Mrs Stella Obasanjo the wife of the the president of Fedral Republic Of Nigeria,who died on 22nd october 2005 when undergoing an eye surgery in Spain,well her death is still a suprice to everybody but then,i have to tell you that it gave me luck though we all loved madam as she is fondly called,she was so intimate with me that she deposited a wooden box on my care,unknown to me that the contents in the box were raw cash in dollars,but she use to tell me that the contents were family valueables.
Finally,i have already brought the money to Parakou in Benin Republic,another country outside Nigeria and deposited the cash in metalic trunk box as well changed the keys in a security company as family belongings,please all i need from you is to just be in your country and receive this money on my behalf and keep it secret for both of us only untill the deal is done,however i really need to transfer this money out of Africa for investments and that is were i need your help,i shall tell you what will be your own share as soon as i hear from you,once again this is scam free,it is an opportunity that i don't even know how to decribe it untill i move the cash to any foreign country out of Africa,please this is for real.God Bless You.


Yours Sincerely,Iheomachi Gaeme.




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