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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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. )
  • "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)
  • "trunk boxes" (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 united states 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)
  • "your humble assistance" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: susan rema <susanrema4ever@live.co.uk>
Reply-To: <susan4ril_rema@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:51:36 +0000
Subject: Urgent assistance,please!



YOUR KINDNESS,PLEASE!Dear sir/MadamAfter going through your profile,i decided to contact you for assistacne!I am Susan Rema, 23years of age,i am from the darfur region in Sudan. I write to beg for your assistance to help me and my kid brother stand as our foreign beneficiary to claim 2 trunk metallic boxes containing fund and Diamond deposited by my late father in a security company in Ghana,west Africa. Currently, my brother and I are in Ghana to notify the security company for the claims, and we are staying in the refugee camp. My father was a very wealthy diamond merchant in my country,he died during the war crisis in my country. Before the death of my father he revealed to my kid brother and me that he deposited two metallic trunk boxes with a security company in Ghana one of the boxes contained the sum of Nine million United States Dollars ($9,000,000 USD ) and the other contained diamond. My father told me that the boxes were marked as family treasures that he used my names his first child for the next of kin in depositing of the two boxes. He also ask me to seek a reliable foreign person in a foreign country of my choice where I will transfer these assets and use it for a profitable investment.
I have been able to locate the security company here in Ghana and confirm that the boxes are in their custody but they insist i provide a foreign beneficiary because that was the aggrement that my late father had with them. l am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards. Your suggestions ideas and assistance will be highly appreciated.My late father's brothers wants me and my brother dead so that they could take our inheritance and misuse it that's why i really need you to help me so that my little bro and i could come over to your country after the transfer has been done and continue our education!Please,all legal documents covering this funds and Diamond are with me and will be forwarded to you as soon you indicate your interest.NOTE: MY FATHER DID NOT DISCLOSE THE CONTENT OF THE BOXES TO THE SECURITY COMPANY TO AVIOD THE OFFICIALS FROM RAISING EYE BROWS TO THE FUNDS.I look forward to your reply as i pray that God will give you theenabling spirit to assist me and my brother. God bless you.Susan Rema
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