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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • ",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)
  • "00,000.00" (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.
  • danielakaose_esq@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: AKAOSE DANIEL <akaosedanielpppp@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:34:50 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Message From Daniel Akaose.


Dear Respectful ,

Good day,

I know that this email will come to you as a surprise because you don't know me and i don't know you too. My name is Daniel Akaose , i am 22 years Old and an Orphan. My late father died in Auto Crash in December 2006. My late father was kill in a suspected Road A ccident but the police reported that my late father was drunk and full of alcohol before his death.

However, my late father was a successful business man who lived in HONG KONG AND SHENZEN CHINA before coming back to my country, Latvia. Before the death of my father, he told me that he deposited the sum of US$5,000,000.00 (Five Million, United states dollars only) with a Bank in Netherlands in the year 1999. I have contacted the Bank and they told me that i am free to come and claim the money as the only Son of my late father as i have the secret number my father gave me.

Now, i am presently living with my Uncle who is taking care of my school and my uncle is very wicked to me. He has seized all my late Father properties and sold them away without showing any consign to me. Now, i do not want him to know about the US$5,000,000.00 with the Bank that is why i am contacting you to give me and urgently assist so that i can instruct the Bank to transfer the money to your account to enable me come to meet you in your country.

My main reason of contacting you is because i don't want my Uncle to know about the money because he may claim it and seize the money and i will not get anything.
I am assuring you that this money belongs to my late father and it is safe risk free and legal. The deposit is with the Bank in Netherlands . I havethe full contact of the Bank and their Website in Netherlands where late my father deposited this fund.

Let me know if your ready to help me on this so that i can give you the detail information of the Bank and we reach and agreement on what will be your share.

I am waiting for your reply.

Best regards,

Daniel Akaose.
danielakaose_esq@myway.com


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