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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
• 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.
  • jamesomoh2008@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "james omoh" <jamesomoh01@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:43:05 +0000
Subject: from james omoh sudan


Dear Partner,


I am very sorry to contact you in this manner, I am aware that this is
certainly not the right way of approach to establish a relationship of
trust,But pls i will like you to read this mail for God sake,so that you
understand why I decide to reach you through this medium.


my name is James OMOH I am a citizen of Southern Sudan the son of the
late Chief Okpo Omoh who work as an expatriate engineer with the
foreign government in Sudan 1999 to export at the Oil Venture to foreign
country but unfortunately he was killed by rebels during political problem
in my country Sudan 2005. When the government of Sudan try to investigate
the profit of the Oil been export out of Port Sudan, so the opposition
leaders disrupt the Oil operational and cause war in Sudan. Before my
Father's death he made my mother to understand that he deposited some huge
amount of money in a security company in Ghana West Africa, which he Made
from sales of gold and Oil business in Africa Market and he gave my mother
all relevant document of the trunk box Which he deposited (marked) as
family belonging.


I and my mother were able to move out from Sudan through the UNITED
NATION, that Coven refugee from Sudan to Accra Ghana, West Africa. Because
we want to make the claims of the trunk box content $15 Million Dollar
Because my late father deposit the One Trunk Box/Diplomatic Personal
Treasure so that nobody should knows about the content of the box here in
africa. So I am hereby soliciting your assistance to be my foreign partner
and adviser because: I do not know much about investment or how to handle
this funds,here in Ghana that is why we need your assistance as a foreign
partner to help us to move this funds out of Africa for security reason to
your country,


Please if you are interested to help us please promise us to keep this
transaction confidential because nobody knows about the existence of this
funds I and my mother agreed to give you "Twenty Percent" of the total sum
of the funds inside the trunk box, your compensation for the assistance is
negotiable,If you really want to be sure about this and before you agree
to assist us to stand as my foreign partner for you to know am not joking
kindly make trip to come to meet me in Ghana in person so that we meet
face to face,so kindly get back to me for more details how to discuss with
the security company.I wait for your immediate response so that I give you
more details.get back to me on this email address jamesomoh2008@yahoo.com.


Thanks and God bless

James Omoh

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