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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:
  • "the consignment " (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)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • drhenryrhodes_5@o2.pl (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: rhodes henry <drhenryrhodes70@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:34:01 +0900
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU?



Hello,Good day and how are you doing?My name is Dr.Henry Rhodes.I live in London United Kingdom,I am 51 years old and married with three children, four cats, and one dog. I am the Director of Silver Global Security& FinanceServices Limited,London (United Kingdom)
I got your information from Internet and after due consideration, I decided to contact you believing that you will not disappoint me over this transaction. I have been working with this company for over sixteen years. Within this period, I have watched with meticulous precision how AfricanHeads of State and Government functionaries have beenusing Silver Global Security & Finance Ltd to bemoving magnitudes of funds (USD, Pounds Sterling, AndFrench Francs) (cash) to their foreign partners. They bring in these consignments of cash and secretlydeclared the contents as jewelries, gold, diamonds,precious stones, and family treasures, and documentsetc. Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (dead), Gen. SanniAbacha of Nigeria (dead), Fode Sankoy of Sierra Leone,Savimbi late President of Angola, Felix HouphetBoigny of Cote d"Ivoire (dead) Charles Taylor, FormerPresident of Liberia, please visitwebsite:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2963086.stm,Konan Bedie of Cote d"Ivoire (Abidjan) etc. All thesepeople have consignments deposited in our office.Their foreign partners, friends and relatives areclaiming most of these consignments. A lot of them are lying here unclaimed for more than two years.Nobody will ever come for them because in most cases,the Certificate of Deposit is never available toanybody except the depositors or me since most of themare dead. I have through the instrumentality of GlobalSecurity & Finance re-deposited some unclaimedoverstayed consignment and get ready to move themthrough diplomatic means to your country where it can beclaimed easily by you. Since the inception of the year2006 our company's management has changed theprocedure of claiming of consignments, as soon as youare able to produce the secret information ascontained in the secret file of any consignment, itwill be released to you upon demand. I have finalized every arrangement to move consignment Ref-no:SGSF/0016/2004/d4 Batch-no: 300047-0010-kht containing$20.5 Million. Upon your response we will arrange onhow the diplomat will convey the consignment directlyto you, everything concern this deal is risk free; Ihave taken necessary preventive measures. (The modesharing will be 60%-40%) all the documents that coversthe total funds will be handed over to you sealed bythe diplomat. Best regards.DR.Henry Rhodes.Director SGSF Ltd,(United Kingdom)Reply through my private e-mail box:drhenryrhodes_5@o2.pl
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