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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:
  • "million us 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)
• 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.
  • 233276998263
• 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.
  • boyde232@lycos.com

Fraud email example:

From: ken lucky <mcje2003@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 11:02:53 +0100 (BST)
Subject: BUSINESS ASSISTANCE


John and Mother of Mohamed Sankoh family
Sierra-Leone residing here in Ghana
Bujumbura Refugee Camp Zoom (B) Kasoa, Accra-Ghana
Email: (boyde232@lycos.com) Tel: 233-27-6998263



Dear Sir,

It is our greatest pleasure to write to you, how is the family; hope fine? If so doxology, we got your contact through the Internet when searching for assistance for business and partnership,
My name is John, I am 27 years old I am the elder son of late Dr. Mohamed Tango Sankoh our father was a diamond and gold merchant in our country Sierra-Leone.

During the civil war in our country Sierra-Leone our father made a secretly deposit of 28 million us dollars the fund was made for investment abroad and some quantity of Gold which is secretly in boxes deposited in a bank vault, through the help of a security firm here in Africa, our father deposited this fund because he don’t want to loss the fund to the rebels in the civil war that lasted 11 years in my country, my late dad acquire the fund through the diamonds dealings.

Now the civil war is over our mother now decided to seek for a trustworthy and God fearing person who will assistance us in claiming and investing the deposited fund outside Africa, we have also communicated with the bank through the security firm and we where told to provide a foreign beneficiary due to the already signed contract agreement between our father and the officials of the firm; we are having all documentation covering the deposit.

This is why we need your utmost assistance to stand as the family foreign partner and beneficiary and also we need your assistance in investing the fund into a profitable business venture in your country, the family are willing to give out 20% Of the total amount and 5% for any expenses.

Remain blessed,
John, for the entire family


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