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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)
  • "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)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "is 100% risk-free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • raphaelstephen_03@yahoo.com.mx (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephen=20Raphael?= <raphaelstephen_03@yahoo.com.mx>
Reply-To: straph1@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:25:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I Awaits Your Urgent Reply


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a: raphaelstephen_03@yahoo.com.mx

I Awaits Your Urgent Reply

- Compliment of the day, I contacted you while in search of a honest and sincere person who will join hands with me in a transaction that will better our future. It is my pleasure to involve you into the said transaction which I intend to introduce to you. Though we have not met before in person, I only got your contact through the Embassy Commercial of your Country, believing that one has to take risk in confiding in someone before succeeding in life, I contacted you through the INTERNET being that it remains the fastest means to reach someone on important issue that needs urgent attention, so please do not be embarrassed. However I am currently holding the post of Vault Manager in a Private Security Company based in Kumasi, Ashanti Region of Ghana, our duty is to safeguards private belongings deposited into our Security vault as Consignments. Recently, our Board of Directors held a meeting and passed a new Law, that any Consignment that has been deposited in our custody for the past 3 to 4 yours without the owner coming for claims, should be disposed as a waste to crate space for the new coming consignments though I am not in support of such drastic decision because it is another Man’s sweats and that is what opted me to contact you being that you are a foreigner, I being a staff of the company can not make the claiming but instead of allowing my Management to have the Consignments among themselves, as the Vault Manager I have every opportunity of Moving out these unclaimed Consignments that has over stayed in my Vault for past years and I seek you come in and stand claims of these Two Consignments and my Head Office in Accra is willing to release the consignments to any one who comes first with correct deposit details. More so, on a good arrangement you need not to come down to Ghana in person it can be shipped direct to your doorstep in your Country once you apply to retrieve back your Consignments deposited by your late Business Partner. Dear, for your knowledge, I have secretly ran a scan over these Consignments/Trunk Boxes to know the true contents and to my greatest surprise it contains (quantities of GOLD and FISCAL CASH) suspected to run into millions of United States Dollars which my Management does not know about except me alone.This transaction is 100% risk-free and genuine. I assured you that with my position as the Vault Manager I am ready to work with you if you, every needed information shall relate to you for backing up the claims hence the original owner of these Consignments is late and every attempt to trace any member of his family has proved unsuccessful and abortive. Note that your Identity or Country of Origin does not matter as you are only to contact our Head office situated in Accra and simply instruct them to release your Company Two Consignments deposited with our Security Vault at Kumasi Branch office with registered Code number that will be given to you, so that we can have these Consignments in your possession while I come over to meet with you, I am not greedy have agree to share between us in the ratio of 50 to me and 30 for you, 10 to be share amongst Orphanage Homes in both Countries, while the remaining 10% will be mapped out for expenses. If you are ready and agree to participate please send me your Telephone, and other details of you when responding to this mail and I require you to treat this letter with the utmost urgency.Respectfully yours, Mr. Stephen Raphael.

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