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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:
  • "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)
  • "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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Jerry Kalabi <kalabijerry_1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kalabijerry147@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:53:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I need your urgent assistance. 13/02/2008.


Hello,

I am Jerry Kalabi the son of late Chief Jonathan Kalabi a native of Sierra-Leone, I am presently in the Ghana Refugee Camp on how i will find a reliable person who will assist me to receive my late father's consignment (two trunk boxes containing Gold Dust and US$5million United State dollar clean cash) which my late father deposited with a security company here in Ghana before it was ship to Russia for safe keeping.

The original person who suppose to clear my consignment on our behalf of me in Russia as my foreign beneficiary later betrayed me regarding the percentage when i have agree to give him 20% for helping me to receive my consignment and 10% for any expenses including his phone call, as soon as the consignment arrive successfully he later call me that he will take 60% of the total funds and 40% for me that is why i stop the diplomat not deliver my consignment box to him any more because he is very greedy man.

The funds is not a stolen or drug funds. My late father was an owner of a small Gold and Diamond Corporation Company in my home town Sierra-Leone and he died as a result of power struggle.

It was a political struggle and after his death i have to move to Ghana refugee camp in Accra to resettle and also because of the consignment which was deposited by my late father (Chief Jonathan Kalabi) but i am not safe here because if those in sierra-Leone understand that i am here in Accra Ghana they will come after me and my life will be in serious danger as some of them are aware that we have this kind of funds.

Please do render me your trust and keep this transaction confidential for security reasons because the funds is my life and future and I have agreed to offer you 20% for your assistance and 10% for any expenses you will carry out during this transaction including your phone calls. i intend to invest wherever we finally reside and i believe you could be of useful assistance in area of investment.

Thanks and God bless you.

Jerry Kalabi

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