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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:
  • "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.
  • kc.ahmad@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Kingsley Ahmed <kingsley.ahmad7@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kc.ahmad@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 07:07:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Still waiting for your response


Greetings! I am Kingsley Ahmed the son of late Ben Salim Ahmed from Sudan residing in London. I saw your contact while going through your country's chamber of commerce and industry so I decided to contact you after going through your profile hoping you can be trusted to handle this matter and not betray me like Mr. Roberto Del Piero of Italy who ran away with my late father's US$8.8Million when the funds was transferred to his account and changed his location and phone number. Till this moment I have not been able to locate him. Please i contact you in good faith and clean heart so i want you to let me trust you to be able to handle this deal for me and on my behalf.

I have an inherited US$5,800,000.00 plus 150 Kilos of Alluvial Gold Dust deposited with the International Commercial Bank Ltd in Accra - Ghana by my late father and I need your assistance to claim it from the bank in Ghana and have it transferred to your bank account in your country. I came down to Ghana 3 days today to pursue this matter myself but was told by the bank and as contained in the deposit certificate that it is my late father's foreign partner that has the rights to lay claims to the funds and gold with them so I contacted you to act as my late father's foreign partner in helping me get the money and gold transferred into your account. I will offer you 20% of the total amount and 10 kilos of the gold and also come over to your country to invest the balance of everything in your country or any part of the world based on your professional advise. You can call me on my phone: +233 243 573024 and get back to me by email: kc.ahmad@gmail.com

Name: Kingsley Ahmed.
Tel: Ghana: +233 243 573024.
Email: kc.ahmad@gmail.com


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