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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • sarahkonte333@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sarah Konte <sarahkonte1983@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 03:09:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Miss.Sarah


Greetings,

I got your email contacts here in asylum camp where i currently reside as a refugee and on my going through the Senegalese chamber of commerce I got your contact and decided to contact you with faith for this help. My sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to contact you.


So it is my pleasure to contact you sir though I have not met with you before but am pleading you for this help,all the same Sir i want you to consider it as the will of God for my knowing whom you are.

I am Miss. Sarah Konte 24 years old, the only daughter of the former minister for Defence and Interior in Sierra Leone Engr. William Konte. There is this Fifteen million,five hundred thousand US Dollarsd ($15,500,000.00 DOLLARS) which my late father kept in a bank before he was assassinated by unknown persons from the rebels after the new political crisis in my country in 1994.

Sir I waited for so long before I decided to go for this my inheritance to start up a new life in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security of my life. I want you to help me claim and retrive the money from the bank with the documents I have here with me and transfer it into your personal account in your country for my future life purposes and on profitable investment.The reasons is that the financial laws of this country(Senegal)does not allow me with my refuggee status to do any financial transaction both local and international as was explained to me by the bank management.


Please Sir I pray that you will be of good assistance to me, I will be pleased for you tell me what will be your offer out of the total money so I can use the rest to start up my life after completing my education there in your country.


Moreover Sir, I would want to make it clearly known to you that this transaction will require some money according to the bank on my last discussion with the manager, this includes the reason I am asking you for Godly help to get this money out of the bank.All I am promising is that every expenses you made will be subtracted from the money immediately it is transfered to your account before proper sharing according to our agreement.

I await your soonest response through here(sarahkonte333@yahoo.com) if you can consider my helpless condition and assist me out. May God bless you.

Your's Sincerely,

Miss.Sarah Konte.

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