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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:
  • "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 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.
  • eddymensa@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "eddymensa Gazeta.pl" <eddymensa@gazeta.pl>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 00:39:55 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS PORPOSAL


ATTENTION:

My name is Mr. EDDY MENSA I hail from the Federal Republic of Ghana, 41
years, married with three children. I am the Diretor of Global Security &
Finance Services Limited, Ghana. I got the information concerning you from
the Internet and after due consideration, I decided to contact you believing
that by the Grace of God, that you will not
disappoint me over this deal.

I have been working with this company for over fifteen years. Within this
period,and i have watched with meticulous precision how African Heads of
State and Government functionaries have been using Global Security & Finance
Ltd to move sums of money USD, Pounds Sterling, French Francs (cash) to
their foreign partners. They bring in these consignments of cash and
secretly declare the contents as jewelries, gold, diamonds, precious stones,
family treasures, and documents etc.
Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (dead), Gen. Sanni Abacha of Nigeria (dead),Fode
Sankoy of Sierra Leone, Babangida of Nigeria, Felix Houphet Boigny of Cote
d"Ivoire (dead), Kanan Bedie of Cote d"Ivoire (Abidjan) etc. All these
people have many consignments deposited with my office.

Their foreign partners, friends and relatives are claiming most of these
consignments. A lot of them are lying here unclaimed for as much as eight
years. Nobody will ever come for them because in most cases, the Certificate
of Deposit are never available to anybody except the depositors or me since
most of them are dead. I have through the instrumentality of Global Security
& Finance re-deposited all these unclaimed and overstayed consignment into
the Vault Facility of a reputable Security Company in Europe. Since the
inception of the year 2000, our company's management has changed the
procedure of claims of consignment, as soon as you are able to produce the
secret information as contained in the secret file of any consignment, it
will bereleased to you upon demand.


I have finalized every arrangement for you to claim consignment No. 1401,
1402 containing $13.7 Million.(Thirteen Million seven hundred Thousand) I
will supply you with all the information and documents that will facilitate
your easy claim of the consignment. Upon your positive reply of this letter,
I will furnish you with further details and information regarding the modus
operandi for the execution of the transaction. This business is risk free as
I have taken necessary preventive measures. (The mode of sharing will be
50-50), you can reach me by email and I will direct you on what to do and
also
l like you to furnish me with your full name and your confidential phone and
fax number(s) for easy reach.

Please Expedite action
.
Yours faithfully,

MR. EDDY MENSA

NOTE: PLEASE COPY YOUR REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS:

eddymensa@sify.com

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