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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)
• 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.
  • edwardannan_2002@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "EDWARD ANNAN" <edward.and.edward@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: edwardannan_2002@myway.com
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:18:31 -0800
Subject: Re:from Edward Annan Please Sir I need your assistance.

Dear Sir,

My name is Edward Annan from Ghana in West Africa and my purpose of

writing is to seek your immediate assistance in completing an urgent

consignment delivery which I shipped to your country in the name of

Mr.John Missus who is my late father's my business partner. This

consignment has been in your country with the delivery company since

five months ago because on getting there they could not locate the

rightful recipient which my late father;s partner after investigation

they discorverd that my father'r partner is late. So in other not to

loose this shipment or pay excess demurrage, I ask you to contact the

storage manager so that he can give you details of consignment for you

to clear it and you receive the consignment as the new recipient on my

behalf as soon as you can.

I wish to inform you that the consignment is containing USD$10 Million

and African antiquities about 20kg alone, and I do not intend to return

it back to Ghana in other not to pay extra cost in reshipment.

Your benefit from this business will be considerable as it will be

discussed along during the transaction, and your consistent partnership

might attract you a more valuable transaction in time to come here

after i might have come over to stay with you in your country to

further my education.I would also want you to help me invest wisely my

own part of this funds.
Hoping you understood my brief tender, get back to me via this email

address: edwardannan_2002@myway.com if you accept recieveing it for

me.

I await you responce soon
Best regards.
Edward Annan.

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