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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)
• 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.
  • deansammer033@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "safe ammer" <mrammer05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: deansammer2006@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:08:42 -0500
Subject: THANKS AND REMAIN BLESSED

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.D S Ammer, the purchasing director African Millennium Villages
Project. Our head office is situated in Lome, Federal Republic Togo. This
agency has been existing since over 3 years.
Our duty is to fight against rural poverty in Africa. This scheme has over
US$300, 000, 000, 00 involves targeted investment in health, education and
farming to help lift African villages out of poverty.

Presently we have currently covers around 107 villages in 13 countries,
including, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya. Under the
scheme, villages are supplied with various materials, e.g. mosquito nets to
prevent the spread of malaria, fertilizers, clothing of various kinds and
treatment for people living with HIV/Aids. This scheme makes up part of the
UN'S Millennium Development Goals, which are internationally agreed targets
to cut poverty, hunger, disease and boots literacy by 2015 in Africa.

I am contacting you for a business; I would like you to register with our
agency as one of our
foreign suppliers that supplys relief materials to our organization. I have
about US$8MILLION to transfer into any secured bank account abroad. The
money is an over-invoiced contract amount executed by a foreign supplier and
commissioned with African Millennium Villages project (AMVP), and the
original supplier has been paid since march last year remaining the
over-invoiced amount. This was intentional and since then the US$8million
has been in the suspense account of our organization awaiting for claim. Now
i am ready to transfer the fund(US$8million) overseas for our personal
business investment and that is where i need your assistance by providing me
with a trusted bank account to remit the fund. Then both of us will share
the fund.

Now, how to start is just for me to pass through my attorney and register
your name/company as a sub-contract with African Millennium Villages
project, and the date of the registration will be back-dated to the date the
contract was awarded to the original supplier. Then you will serve among the
foreign suppliers that supplied relief material to our organization.

All arrangements have been put in place to ensure a successful project.
Please if you are capable of working this project with me get back to me
quickly via this email:deansammer033@yahoo.com. We will discuss on the
sharing modality of the fund if i receive your positive response. I will
send you more details on how we are going to proceed on the claim. Note this
project is risk free and genue.With your corporation it will only take just
few weeks to accomplish the deal.

Kind regards

Mr.D S Ammer

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