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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "any lucrative business in your country" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: victor ahaoma <victorahaoma1@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: victorahaoma@myway.com
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 23:57:09 +0100 (BST)
Subject: SAVE MY LIFE.


Attn: Please

kindly, permit me to inform you of my predicament though I apologise for any inconveniences it might course you but I write you today based on the fact that I 'm being left alone in this part of the world and I must not hesitate to confide in you.

I am Victor Ahaoma ,and the only child of late Mr and Mrs Ahaoma. my father was a very wealthy gold dealer in ACCRA GHANA before he was poisoned by his business associates while I lost my mother five years ago in a motor accident and my father took me so special because I am motherless. before the death of my father on the 03/011/2006 in a private hospital here in Lome Togo, he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of (USD$6 MILLION) deposited in a trunk box with my name as the beneficary,in a security company here in Lome Togo.

And he told me that he declared the deposit as Family and Personal treasure,under my name as the heir,but instructed that I seek the assistance of an elder person and a foreignier to get the consignments,so I will have to effect a Change of Ownership to your name,which will give you the full aouthority to instruct claims of the consignments to be shiped overseas to you.Presently i am staying under cover,so i beg you in the name of GOD to keep everything about this assistance to yourself.

He also made me understand that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business associates while on a business outing with them in India.

The purpose of this mail is to seek the transfer of this consignments to your country before this peoples will kill me too as I am now hiding in a local hotel here in Lome the capital of Togo and I will compensate you with 45% of this money if we can negotiate and reach a compromise because you will also assist me to invest this money properly in any lucrative business in
your country and l hope you will not turn me down because I am counting on you for my dear life . I am waiting anxiously to hear from you,

My best regards to you and your family ,
Victor Ahaoma.


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