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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic immunity"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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)
  • "diplomatic immunity" ("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.
  
• 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.
  • franciswilliams@k.ro (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Francis Williams"<franciswilliams9000@myway.com>
Reply-To: franciswilliams@k.ro
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 06:08:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Goodday




































Goodday

I am Francis Williams son of the late Dr.Francis Williams Snr former director of Gold and Diamond Miners Co-operation of Sierra Leone .

A year ago my late father died of the HIV virus. Although our mother and his two children(myself and my younger brother) were not infected with the Virus we have been isolated by every one around us including our extended family.

However, long before the death of our father he deposited a huge amount of money in a security company in Ghana that was while he was working with the Gold and Diamond Corporation, before he died in the Hospital back home in our capital city (Freetown).

He told me that the total amount he deposited was US$22.5MILLION and that even the security company does not know that the actual content of his consignment is money because he deposited it with diplomatic immunity and tagged it as family heirloom.

I have made several attempts back home to find some one who would assist me and my family to transfer this money abroad all to no avail because they are afraid that they might contact the HIV which is as result of ignorance and coppled with the fact that my country has just ended a civil war which devastated everybody.

My motive of writing you this message is to ask for your assistance in transferring this consignment to your country so that we can invest the money in a lucrative and viable business as well as continue our lives there.

You can contact me through my email address which is franciswilliams@k.ro so that I will give you more details.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Regards

Francis Williams Jnremail:franciswilliams@k.ro

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