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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)
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "trunk boxes" (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)
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • "contact the diplomat" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "god-fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "princess garang" <kabila_smith@klikni.cz>
Reply-To: princess01@klikni.cz
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 09:06:21 +0100
Subject: YOUR URGENT REPLY FROM PRINCESS GARANG


GREETINGS!!!
ACCRA-GHANA


From: PRINCESS GARANG.

Compliments of the day!

I am PRINCESS GARANG and i write to seek for your assistance; i got your
contact from a noble gentleman that came to our refugee camp here in Ghana,
he came to
lecture us in a seminar about HIV/AIDS,It was after the brief seminar that
i confronted him that i am looking for a God-fearing Individual to be my
foreign and Final Beneficiary, that was when your data was given to me.

I want to introduce myself to you properly. My name is PRINCESS GARANG
and i am from sudan as my country of nationality. I am contacting you in
respect of my consignment trunk Box which contains the sum of $10.5 million
United States dollars and some
quantity of GOLD, which I cannot be specific about. The consignments is
presently in the LONDON.

The consignment trunk Box gets to LONDON through the help of Mr Mark
William who was the formal beneficiary to this consignment. The boxes left
Ghana with the
Delivery of A Governmental U.N diplomat DR WILLIAMS MENSAH. The fact is
that
DR WILLIAMS MENSAH was supposed to have delivered this consignment to a man
called
Mr.Mark William in LONDON.

The week DR WILLIAMS MENSAH was suppose to deliver the consignment to him,
when he got
to LONDON after clearing the consignment trunk Boxes from the Airport, he
called Mr. Mark William to give to him the description to his house for
the delivery, but is wife answered the call and told DR WILLIAMS that
her husband Mr.Mark William hard a fatal car accident which has led to
his death some few hours later.

Mr.Mark William has already paid the demur rages from the security
company, he paid for Bullion van that took the consignment to the airport
and he paid for custom check report he also assisted us in getting the
Necessary Document covering the Consignment and Also for the DRUG / ANTI
TERRORIST CERTIFICATE, which is so expensive that he spent 25 thousand
dollars to acquire it.

But unfortunately he died in a car accident, that was why DR WILLIAMS MENSAH
has to
deposit the consignment with a Security warehouse over there in LONDON and
called me to informed me about what is happening.

Please I need your help to Contact the Diplomat for me and tell him that
you are my foreign
beneficiary that wants to receive the boxes for me. The diplomat can deliver
to any country that i
found a foreign beneficiary who is ready to help me.

I will give you 30% of the money and also some part of the Gold if you are
willing to help me while
you will use the remain 70% to open a good businnes in my name and also help
me come over to live with you, because i want to leave Africa and continue
my education.

I await to receive your urgent response to enable me forward to you all
the legal documents backing up the delivery and also the contact
informations of the diplomat for you to contact him over there in LONDON.

Thanks and God bless you for your good and Godly Heart towards helping
me.

Yours Faithfully,

PRINCESS GARANG

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