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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:
  • "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)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • eysdema.desmond89@yahoo.co.in

Fraud email example:

From: "eysdema desmond" <eysdema3489@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 17:17:16 -0700
Subject: Please reply


Dear Beloved Friend, Sincere Request:
Is my pleasure for writing you this letter,hope you are fine?
I want to use this opportunity to introduce myself well to you,
I am DESMOND EYADEMA,the Ex late PRESIDENT SON OF TOGO,
I call you in respect of my consignment box in GHANA,which I want
you to come and assist me and stand as my foreign beneficiary to
receive my fund in GHANA,this fund am writing you about is
$58.5million U.S.Dollars, and 180kg of alluvia gold which my
late father deposited under SECURITY COMPANY in GHANA,for
my mother and i,and Mr.JOHN ASCOT who was suppose to stand
as my foreign parner and retrieve the consignment.Was demanding
for 40% which I and my mother did not agree on for any reason,
that was why we have to stop the fund and search for another
Beneficiary who can help us on this.I will give you 25% of the total
fund involve for your assistance, because that was the former
agreement we have with our foreign partner. Mr.JOHN ASCOT
before he later change is mind because of his greed that is why
i and my mother put a stop to the fund.I contacted the security
company in ghana,to find out if the consignment box was still in
their vault,and I was told that it is still there thet the instruction
was that i, the son should come with a foreign partner to retrieve
the consignment.and please On the certificate of deposit, the box
was deposited as family treasure so the security company does not
know that the box contains money and gold, they rather know that
the box contains family treasure, please if you are willing to help
me,kindly reply me for more details,and get back to me with your
phone number for more conversation,
Thanks and God Bless.
Regards
desmond eysdema




PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL BOX (eysdema.desmond89@yahoo.co.in)

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