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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:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Sherina Opong" <sherina_opong555@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: sherina_opong@gazeta.pl
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:25:16 +0100
Subject: Re:..........


Dear sir/ma,


Please Permit me to inform you about my desire to seek for assistant from
you and I have the believe that you are going to help me out successfully,
but firstly let me introduce myself.

My name is Sherina Joseph Opong, the daugther of late chief & chief Mrs
Joseph Opong, My father was a very wealthy Gold and Diamond merchant who
based in Accra Ghana and I happened to be the only surviving child of my
dad . Well when i was a kid i went to private schools and things were going
on well for me and my parents, till when i was in high school, after my
mother died, My father took me so special because I am motherless, and he
showered all his love on me and married a second wife who was supposed to to
be my step mum and to take care of me and also because he wanted a male
child who will in-turn take over his business and also because, he did not
want me to suffer, but unfortunate for him my step mum poisoned him.
But before the death of my father,in a private hospital here in Ghana,he
called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sum of
usd$6.500.000 (Six million five hundred thousand united states dollars) in a
bank here in Ghana.
Meanwhile that he used my name as the next of kin on the day of deposit of
the fund, He also explained to me that it was because of this money that
made my step mother to poisoned him, that i should seek for foreign partner
in a country of my choice where i would transfer this money and use it for
investment purpose, such as real estate investment or stock market
investment.

Please, I am honorably soliciting your kind assistance as follows,

1) To provide a bank account where this money will be transfer into.

2) To serve as the guardian of these fund ,since i am 18years old.


I am inclined to offer you 15% of the total sum as a mode of compensation
for your effort after the successful transferring of this fund to your
nominated bank account overseas.
Please i will be very happy if this transaction will be concluded within
seven (7) working days from now.I am expecting to hear from you as soon as
possible.

May Almighty God bless you as you do care for me Amen.

Best regard
Sherina Joseph

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