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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Honest Ejuluwa" <honest_ejuluwa5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: honest_ejuluwa@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:03:29 -0500
Subject: COME AND CARRY YOUR FORTUNE.

Dear Beloved One,

Calvary greetings to you in the name of our Lord and Personal Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

I write you at this Easter season because there is no other time better than this to inform you about your fortune.

I am not talking about a consignment but about twenty-six consignments that have been retreived and processed up till the point where you need to come for your fortune now as the bonafied owner.

My names are Mr. Honest Ejuluwa and I work with the Foreign Exchange Commision. These funds that have been processed, belonging to you had been brough to our office for exchange from United States Dollars into Great British Pounds. We exchanged precisely 22.9 Million Pounds Sterling and handed the funds to the Mint Engineering Company that brought the funds to our office.

These funds belongs to you and the Mint Engineering Company have been working on it for sometime now after it was retrieved by one Inspector Komolafe Oluseyi Jolomi working with the Customs Excise and Preventive Service.

All parties involved in the retreival and cleaning up of the funds contained on the twenty-six trunk boxes have been settled and compensated and the balance funds have been placed for onward transfer to you with Stanbic Bank Limited Ghana.

Please grab this golden oppurtunity and get back to me so that I can connect you with the right bank official that will attend to you and get your funds transferred immediately to you.

I apologise for the delay in getting this message across to you and have a blissful easter celebration.

God Bless You.

Regards,

Honest Ejuluwa.

00233-207-605-238.

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