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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:
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "million united states 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.
  
• 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.
  • stanleysankoh2002@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: stanley sankoh <stanley@stanleysankoh1.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:42:34 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: PLEASE HELP US!!






Dear Sir,


Your contact has been gotten from after a search for a person whom we can jointly invest Trust in and also solicit a Honourable partnership with.My name is Stanley Sankoh,i am 24 years old and the elderst son of late Chief Foday Sankoh. Presently i am in the asylum camp here in the Senegal since the past five years.I have been keeping this issue for the past five years .What i mean is that i want to finally move away from Africa (me and my mother) to start a new life overthere in Europe this is because i do not have any family no more and no relatives .The war split everybody .Maybe some of them are still alive which i dont know , our mighty house and properties are no more.My younger brother and sister died during the war.My father,late Foday Sankoh , popularly know as Gipu in our country ,he was an independent Diamond marketer in Kono District,Sierra Leone.Unfortunatetly for us,he was among the twelve prominent citizens executed by our President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.To know more about me and my father you can go through this website:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3112659.stm



They where executed in 1999 but before my late father was arrested he has already handed over some documents to me,which reveals that , he has deposited one box containing cash was deposited in a security company in europe which contained 8.6 million United States Dollars.He stated that the box was registered as containing PRECIOUS ITEMS as at the time of deposit in order not to raise questions.Right now,myself and my mother are in refugees camp here in Senegal we flee because of the war in our country .I want you to go to europe to assist us facilitates the removal of the funds from the security company and later assist us to buy house in your country and invest the rest for us in any business since we do not want to re-settled in Africa due to the instruction my late father gave me and for people not to set thier eyes on our family.If i have your co-operation, i will see that you are generously compensated.Please indicate your interest by replying to me on this email (stanleysankoh2002@myway.com) so that i can send the necessary documents you need to claim the funds.



Yours faithfully,



Master Stanley Sankoh.

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