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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "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.
  • thomasnkono@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: THOMAS NKONO <thomasnkono1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: thomasnkono@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:44:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: GET BACK TO ME IF YOU ARE INTRESTED


Dear Friend,

I am Thomas Nkono working with a security company in Africa as the operation manager and I will like you to handle this transaction with me. I have with me now some deposit certificate of consignment belonging to the former late Head of State of African Countries and the late Russian oil magnate and some government official. For the past 5 years now
non of the family members have come for the consignment and as the operation manager that take note of the consignment, when the deposited the consignment in our security vaults as a family valuables not knowing it was money that was stash in the boxes.

I need you to help me in securing this fund in our security vaults. I am reaching out to you, and soliciting your help to secure these funds. I can trust you to help and use your name to stand and claim the consignment all the concern documents will be changed in your name and replace it in the file which means you will be the beneficiary of the consignment, a meeting will be arranged to discuss issues involved in claiming the fund and advice on investment.

Let me state that I need a high level of security and communications through my private email: thomasnkono@yahoo.com . If you can stand as the beneficiary, do forward your contact information such as your private telephone and fax number, your full name
and address, then your company name.

Thanking you in advance
Best regards
Mr. Thomas Nkono



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