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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found 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.
  • jim_abgeko2007@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "jim abgeko" <jim_abgeko042@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jim_abgeko00@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:42:26 +0000
Subject: From:JIM AGBEKO

From:JIM AGBEKO

EMAIL:jim_abgeko2007@yahoo.ca

My Beloved,

I know this proposal will come to you as a surprise but it requires utmost
confidence in you. My name is Moses Agbeko from Sudan ; I am the son to
late Dr T Agbeko who was the chief accountant to the ministry of finance in
the last political regime in Sudan .

My late father deposited 240 kilogram of unrefined gold dust worth of twenty
six million, four hundred dollars ($26.4m) in a security company as a family
items for security reasons, here in Accra Ghana the nearest country west
African because as a civil servant he cannot keep this funds in his private
account in our country.

I am therefore soliciting for a trustworthy person who can help me receive
this funds oversea for investment purposes. I will offer 20% to you and 5%
for any expenses inured.(both as miscellaneous and accrued expenses).My late
father signed a contract bond which said that he will claim the boxes with
his foreign partner but we lost his partner in the last London bombing.

That is why i need your help because the proposed partner is dead and the
company has given us the authority to appoint someone who will stand and
receive the boxes, all the deposit documents which my late father used to
deposit the boxes in the security company is with us here in Ghana .
Please you can get back to me if you accept my proposal.
Thank you.

jim Agbeko

for the family.

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