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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.

Fraud email example:

From: "GREG ABALADE" <gregabalade@hamdard.net.pk>
Reply-To: gregabalade@mynet.com
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 03:25:59 +0500
Subject: Reply ASAP

Greetings,


My name is Greg Abalade from Sierra-Leone but I am presently a refugee
staying in Ghana. I am writing to solicit your assistance in the
transfer of $12,000.000.00 million U.S dollars which my late father
deposited in a secret deposit with my name as the next of kin.
This amount of money was deposited by my late father who was a diamond
dealer in the Sierra-Leone before he was killed with my mother by the
the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF) rebels.Before the death of my
father, he told me about this private and secret deposit he made with
a security and finance company.


Presently I am in Ghana where I sought asylum and I have contacted the
security and finance company to confirm the existence of the deposit,
after having confirmed that, I contacted with my lawyer who advised me
that I must seek for a foreign beneficiary who will assist me to claim
the consignment because I cannot claim it because I have a refugee
status at the moment and the fiscal policy of Ghana forbid a refugee
to own over $150 and as such if I proceed with my request to claim the
money, that it will be seized by the government.,so I have been
advised by my lawyer that I should find a foreign partner abroad and
then transfer the next of kin to him or her and after having legally
transferred the next of Kin ,then the Security and Finance company
will be requested to transfer the money to my partner in his or her
country and after that my partner can help me to travel to his or her
country.
My purpose of contacting you is to appoint you as my next of kin so
that we will make a legalized change of next of kin and instruct the
security company to transfer the money to you in your country. I agree
to give you 30% of the total money for your role. If you accept my
proposal, please reply with the following information:

NAME:
COUNTRY:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
MOBILE NUMBER:


God Bless you,

Greg Abalade

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