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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "huge deposit" (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 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)
  • "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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "urgent assistance" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: lewis lamptey <l_lamptey01@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:51:47 +0100 (BST)
Subject: i need your help.


Hello Friend,

Please i need your help,am Lewis Lamptey. I am the only son of late
Dr Wilfred Lamptey, from Cape Verde island, with my only younger sister Josephine Lamptey.our mother died a year later of breast cancer after my daddy,he was very rich owing various mining company around the
globe,specially Brazil,Honduras,Argentina and his head quarter in my
country Cape Verde Island or better still referred to as Republica De
Cabo Verde Island.

After his untimely death when embarking on a holiday trip in the
COTONOU,Benin part of Africa which took place on December 25th Benin
plane crash. Here is the air crash web site=
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html.
My mom gave me the documents and address of the company which my
father made a huge deposit of one consignment in the Sagam Security and
Insurance Co.in Ghana Accra, which is worth the sum of $45,000,000.00
(forty five Million US Dollars) containing family precious belongings,
belonging to him.Please,I hereby request for your urgent assistance to
help claim it (consignment) as his foreign partner and to help me and
my only sister investing the fund as a partnership investment betwee me
and you in your company or any possible lucrative investment that both
of us will benefit from it.after the death of my mother my fathers family made us nobody in our fathers asset he left behind and treated us like slaves in our own house.

Please tell me in confidence, can you handle it? Can you invest this
huge amount of money successfully on behalf of me and my sister? Have
you ever handle such amount of money before? How old are you? Please advise most urgently.

In a short while, I will arrange a meeting with you so that I can
accompany you to the Security Co. house office in Ghana where the
consignment fund is deposited by my late father for easy claim and
quick transfer to your country.
I have concluded to share 75-25% of this consignment with you if u help
me and it is finally claimed and delivered to your door step in your
country sir you are our hope to stand back on our feet.Please we need
your help so we can get this consignment claimed.

Thanks and God Bless,
Lewis Lamptey.

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