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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:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • emma2007@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Emmanuel Kondo" <akukarilili2003@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: emma_kondo@gawab.com
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:26:41 +0000
Subject: RE:LET US INVEST

My Beloved,

It is a long time that i have being looking for partner like you so that we
can do business together, Before i came across your contact .My name is
Mr.Emma Kondo from Liberia and presently in a (UN) refugee camp in a border
town between Ivory coast and Ghana in west Africa. My father was a
politician and Tobacco farmer. He was killed in his bed room by the rebels.
The rebels beat me and broke my leg and i am now using single stick before i
can walk. During the time my father was alive, My father used my name as
next of king to deposite $15.5millon USA dollars in secuirity company in
Ghana. All the documents bearing in my name. I want to invest this money
outside Africa like your country. I plan to give out 15%pecent to anybody
who help me to claim out this consignment from the security company where my
late father deposited it as a gift items to his foreign partner for safe
security reasons, Just try me to see my dear i want to live Africa. Please
reply me if you are intrested or not so that i can know what to do next. God
bless you.

PLEASE CONTACT ME ON TEL:00233-275-182-196. OR EMAIL: emma2007@excite.com

Your's sincerely,
Emmanuel Kondo.

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