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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • davidkumelo20@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: dkumelo@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:15:42 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?from=20david=20?=

Dear Friend.

I am very sorry to contact you in this manner,because i got your contact
when am searching for a reliable person from the ghana business directory
here in ghana,that is how i come across you to assist me and my mother to
help us to stand as our foreign beneficiary to get our funds out of Ghana,deposited
in a security company in Accra Ghana by my late father. But I respectfully
insist that you read this mail carefully for GOD sake.

I am a citizen of Liberia the first son of the late former Prime Minister
of land,Mines and Energy Dr. Richard Kumelo who was killed by rebels during
presidential problem in my country Liberia Before my Father's death he made
my mother to understand that he deposited some huge amount of money which
he Made from sales of diamond and gold business in Liberia and he give my
mother all relevant document of the consignment Which deposited (marked)
as family belonging.

I and my mother were able to move out from Liberia through the UNITED NATION
RESCUE TEAM, that Coven refugee from Monrovia the capital city of Liberia
to Accra Ghana, as a refugee. My Biological Father left behind physical
cash of "eleven Million United State Dollars" (11 Million USDollar)which
he safely lodged in a Security Company in Accra Ghana,during his regime
in the office, as a prime minister.

I am hereby soliciting your assistance to be my foreign partner and adviser
because:

I do not know much about investment or how to move this funds out of africa
that is why we need your assistance as a foreign partner to help us to
move this funds out of africa for a better investment in your country because
am just 21yrs old While my mother she is 52yrs old and we are refugee in
Ghana we are also hiding our identity because nobodys knows about this
funds here in ghana and presently the fomer president of liberia president
charles taylor is facing tribunal case in a country called Sierra Leone,
according to my mother my late father work with this man when is alive so
if you will interested kindly keep this transaction very confidential and
secret for our life here in ghana and we agreed to give you "Twenty Percent"
of the total sum of the funds inside the consignment box, your compensation
for the assistance is negotiable while "Two Percent" of the whole sum will
be mapped out for any expenses occure during the process of this transaction.


After the success of this transaction you are going to make arrangement
for me and my mother to meet you over in your country for investment of
the funds or before you agree to assisted us to stand as my foreign partner
for you to know am not joking kindly make trip to come to meet me in Ghana
in person face to face before so that me and you can go to the security
company as my late father foreign business partner who want to help us
to make the claim of the funds deposited in Ghana as family belongings
by my late father,I know We have never meet before and this mail will come
to you as a surprise, but I want you to know is trust i have for you and
faith, please do not let me down when this fund finally gets into your account,
if you agree to assisted me.

kindly get back to me through my email address with more details about you
if you are interested to be my life partner so that to enable me feed you
with more details and send you all necessary documentations which involve
in this transaction.

Looking forward to hear from you and keep this transaction very confidential
and secret because of our life here in africa.

Please kindly call me 00233243132904 or email davidkumelo20@yahoo.com if
really wish to help me

Thanks and GOD bless.

David Kumelo

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