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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • "million dollars" (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)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27768860616 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • johntanbo@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "John Tanbo" <johntanbo7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johntanbo@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:43:10 +0000
Subject: John Tanbo ( Diamond Producers of Africa (DPA)

Good Day.

I am Mr.John Tanbo, the Head of Operations Unit; Diamond Producers of Africa
(DPA)
under The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).I requests your
co-operation in this confidential transaction of cash money amounting to
total sum
of Thirty-Two Million United States Dollars but we will first of all move
out Twelve
Million United States Dollars into your facility before the remaining Twenty
Million
United States Dollars.

My colleague and I secured this fund during the course of our duty in the
case of
Six Hundred-Million Dollars Conflict Diamond in Angola, The Democratic
Republic of
Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone and Liberia. Our duty covers many financial
activities/responsibility. Due to our sensitive position and civil code of
conduct,
which does not allow us to own or operate foreign bank accounts and many
other
rigorously benchmark, we seek your cooperation in this deal to externalize
this
fund.

We will provide you with the necessary logistics for this project if you are
interested in this deal, please reply to my personal mailbox:
johntanbo@yahoo.co.uk or
call me on:+27-7688-60616, I will give you all the documentations including
details
for a hitch free transaction. I want to assure/guarantee you that this deal
has been
structured for a hitch free and successful transaction without any risk. The
fund is
not a governmental fund and untraceable by any persons. This transaction
will be
structured with legal documentation to cover the fund; met with all
international
regulations regarding fund transfer.

Finally, I will give you a quarter of the total sum as your commission for
your
corporation. While I waits for your reply along with your direct telephone
number.

Yours sincerely.

JohnTanbo

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