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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Emmanuel Kamara <emmanuel_00128@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kamaraemmanuel_1984@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:32:37 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Greetings....please read and reply soon God bless you


we needs your help please, God bless you.


Dearest one,

Recieved a warm greetings... I am ( Emmanuel Kamara ) from sierra leone, west africa. i write to inform you my desire to have joint investment, and to buy a living house in your country. i am the first son of (Hon.Albert Kamara ) my father was a diamond/gold merchant in my country, and my father had deceased and my two sisters’ had a fatal motor accident.

before my father died he reavealed to me and my mother about the boxes containing: (45 kilos) of gold dust unrefined and the other one is ($16.5 us, sixteen million five hundered thousand us dollars) which he deposited with one of the leading and reputable insurance security & finance company in africa located in GHANA for safe keeping.

my father did not disclose any of the content of the boxes to the security company, to avoid the officials from raising eye brows to the funds. presently my mother and myself are here in Ghana to notify the security company for the claims, and we are staying in the refugee camp, because we can not afford to rent house in the city, besides all the vital documents covering the deposit transaction is intact in our position.

we have map out 25% for you and 5% aside for any expenses that you might incure during the process of this transaction 20% to buy a living house in your country and the remaining 50% will be for our joint investment.

Note: we have never disclosed this to any person apart from you, so you have to keep this transaction as a top secret to yourself alone.

which we will want you to forward across to us your direct tel/fax (mobile) the front page of your travelling passport (scan copy) for more details.

Yours truly,
Emmanuel Kamara (for the entire family)



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