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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)
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "30% for you " (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.
  • isaacayita@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "isaac ayita" <isaac.ayita9@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: isaacayita@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:54:38 +0000
Subject: Greetings.

Dear Friend,

I guess this letter may come to you as a surprise since I had no previous
correspondence with you. I am the chairman tender board of Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC).I got your contact in my search for a
reliable person to handle a very confidential transaction involving the
transfer of US$13.million. Contractor Charles Lambert as send me the copy of
the deposit draft of 13million dollars to me, all I need is your trust and
honest so that I will send you the copy of this draft and you will send it
to the bank for the remittance to your account.

The above fund is not connected with arms, Drugs or Money laundering. It is
the product of an over invoiced Contract awarded in 2003 by INEC to a
foreign company for the construction of road and the biggest roundabout in
West Africa here in Ghana. The contract has long been executed and payment
of the actual contract amount has been paid to the foreign contractor
leaving the balance, which my colleague and I now want to transfer out of
Ghana into a reliable foreign account for our personal use.

As a civil servant we are not allowed to run foreign accounts. Hence we have
chosen to front and support you as the beneficiary to be paid. It is a very
good thing that the president has endorsed the resolution passed by the
minister that all foreign contractors owed by government of Ghana be paid.
We will seize this good opportunity to purport you as one of the
beneficiaries to be paid. If you are interested in the proposal kindly get
back to me by sending me your letter of acceptance along with your direct
telephone and fax numbers, we have decided to share the money in the
following percentage, 60%for us 30% for you the account owner and 10% for
all local and international expenses that may arise in the course of this
transaction.

Further details about this transaction will be discussed in the subsequent
correspondence. Note also that the particular nature of your business is
irrelevant to this transaction and all local contacts and arrangements are
in place for a smooth and successful conclusion of this transaction. Be
informed that we are aware of the way email proposals of this type are being
sent from this part of Africa and as regards that, you should please treat
this with utmost attention knowing fully well that you cannot and will not
be compelled to assist us if you are not disposed to. Contact me via my
email account with your contact telephone and fax Numbers, so that I can
call you for a discussion. Thank you as I await your response. reply to my
box isaacayita@yahoo.com.hk


Yours Sincerely,
Isaac Ayita.

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