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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Desmond Eyadema" <desmond_dem_02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: desmond_dem_01@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:15:26 +0000
Subject: Respond to your mail.

Dear sir/madam,
Is my pleasure for writing you this letter, hope you are fine? I want to use
this
opportunity to introduce myself well to you, I am Desmond Gnassinbge Eyadema
the Ex Late President son of Togo, I call you in respect of my consignment
box in
NEW YORK, which I want you to assist me and stand as my foreign beneficiary
to receive my fund over there in America, this fund am writing you about is
$12.5million U.S.Dollars which my late father deposited under Ghana High
Commission for I and my mother, this consignment has been in NEW YORK for
the pass three days now, My foreign partner Mr. Johnson Ascott who was
suppose to receive this consignment in NEW YORK, was demanding for 50%
which I and my mother did not agree on for any reason, that was why we have
to
stop the delivery to him immediately, and search for another Beneficiary who
can help us on this, through my searching I got your contact from the
Ministry of
Chambers and Commerce, that is why I am contacting you to assist us on this.

I will give you 20% for the total fund involve for your assistance,because
that
was the former agreement we have with our foreign partner. Mr. Johnson
Ascott
,before he later change is mind because of his greed that is why i and my
mother
put a stop to the delivery to him , and this is the contact information's of
the
Diplomat in charge of my consignment in NEW YORK, his name is Mr.Steve
Johnson, after then I want you to call the Director of the Ghana High
Commission, his name is Dr.Paul Adams,because that was where the
consignment left from to NEW YORK, and you will send to me this information
require like your passport photograph, your home address, including your
telephone number and your fax, for verification and delivery purpose, and
please
get back to me as soon as you receive this mail for more detail.
Thanks and God Bless
Yours Sincere
Desmond G.Eyadema.

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