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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.
• 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.
  • alexwippy27@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "alexwippy39@terra.es" <alexwippy39@terra.es>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:39:48 +0100 (MET)
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU?


GREETING TO YOU.


I will like to apologize for sending you this mail without seeking your permission. I am Frimpong Agyeman and I’m 17yrs old and I am a Ghanaian. I am not completely educated I stop schooling a year ago after I completed my SSS level, though I am still interested in completing my education, I am not very education but I can try to make you understand the reason why I am seeking your help.

I was born into a wealthy family, and things have been going on well (even though my father had divorced my mother for the best reason) until last year October when my father dead a shocking death. Ever still I have been finding it hard to survive on my own, but I still get some little assistance from my father’s family member.

My purpose of contacting you is to seek your help, I was informed by my late father’s former lawyer that my father has an amount of $45million USD in a bank vault, which I have searched through my father’s file and I find out that it is true. I have gone to the bank on several occasions but they wouldn't give me attention, because they keep repeating that I am too young to forward any claim. Though what they say is true, but last week I was made to understand by a secret man from inside the bank, and he told me that the bank is trying to steal my right from me, meaning that I might loss this money if I don’t get help soon. I can’t trust any of my family members, because with a clear look from their relationship with my father when he was alive, they have always jealous his success.

I am writing to you, because I want you to help me, so that we can get this money out of African, to start another life eniterly in your country. Please if I can trust in your sincerity and honesty to help me, I will give you 30% of the total fund, including any expenses during the cause of your help.

Please contact me only through my private email: alexwippy27@yahoo.de

I will be expecting to hear from you.
Thanks
Wram Regards
Frimpong.





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