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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. )
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Sombo Pujeh" <madam.sombo33@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mrs.sombo@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:06:31 +0000
Subject: PLEASE HANDLE PERSONAL.



Good Day. Diving to your perceived confidentiality as an individual, I request for your sincere assistance. I am Mrs. Sombo Pujeh, the wife of Sierra-Leone former minister for mineral resources. While my husband who is presently in detention was the acting minister, he used his position to market some Gold Dust and Rough Diamond under a confidential arrangement and generated US$18.3M after the deal. This amount is presently in a Security Company in Accra – Ghana, so we seek your partnership to move this fund down to your country for investment. We were recently alerted by our family friend who is still serving under this regime that the Government of our country has constituted a panel that will recover and probe all the former officers involved in any act of misappropriation of funds. As a result, I have been advised to relocate out of the country with my children, so we are presently taking refuge some where in hide in Ghana. Based on the information from our family friend I have decided to divert the fund to a new destination through your professional arrangement since my husband is presently under serious security check, and my aim for coming to Ghana as a place to hide was to enable me supervise the swift clearance of the funds. I will let you know the next step immediately I hear from you, also we will be discussing your commission upon your response. All above please treat as confidential. Sincerely,
Mrs. Sombo Pujeh.

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