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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • fmissstella@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "stella ford" <fstella14@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:27:56 +0100
Subject: Dear Beloved One:


*Dear Beloved One:

Greetings to you,
I wish to bestow this mutual trust in you, which I believe you will not
ignore or betray my godly bestowed trust in you; I also apologize in advance
for any in convenience this letter may cause you. My name is Stella Ford,
the elder daughter of Mr.Nzamanu Ford of Zimbabwe. I know this might be a
surprise to you about where I got your contact address. I got your esteem
contact and particulars out of desperate search for a business minded
personality in your country, who will honestly trust and assist my younger
brother and I to realize our inherited funds into his/her account and as
well as invest it into a lucrative business.*

*During the recent war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters
of our President, Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his
party members and his followers, he ordered all the white farmers to
surrender all their farms to his party members and his followers. Read more
stories in this website:
**http://www.rte.ie/news/2000/0418/zimbabwe.html*<http://www.rte.ie/news/2000/0418/zimbabwe.html>
*
My father being one of the few rich and successful black farmers in our
country was also victimized because of his opposition to Mugabe's policies.
And because he did not support Mugabe's ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded
my father's farm and burnt everything in the farm, killed my parents and
made away with a lot of items in my father's farm. This action was taken
because my late father felt the growing tension on the farm issue, but I
guess he never anticipated the tragedy that brought their brutal and sudden
death.

My father, Before his unfortunate death he deposited with one of the
Security Company in Accra Ghana the sum of US$5.5M after the death of my
father, my brother and I escaped to the Republic of Ghana where he had
deposited the money in the Security Company as a family treasure's. And we
were permitted to reside here as Political Refugees. So because of our
present and unpleasant status here we decided to contact an overseas
firm/individual that can assist us to move this money out of Ghana because,
as asylum seekers we are not allowed to operate any financial transaction of
such amount within Ghana and also to assist in providing me and my brother a
permanent residential permit in your country after the money must have been
transferred to your account.*

*We have agreed to offer you 35% of the total sum for your assistance, and
the rest will be for my brother and I, to Invest in your country. All I want
you to do is to furnish me with your entire details including your readiness
to assist me achieve this transaction for investment purposes in your
country under your supervision. Please further details on how to achieve
this transaction. Also, send your confidential phone numbers for
further/easier communication.*

*I have to re-assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free and should
be treated with absolute confidentiality. All the vital
documentation/certification that has to do with the origin of the fund is
with me for the security reasons. And I will send them to you upon request
for your perusals. And I guarantee you that this fund is not government
fund, drug money, or from arms deals.*

*I will detail you more immediately I receive your acceptance response. I
hope this is the beginning of a prosperous relationship between us.
Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Yours faithfully
Stella Ford

NB: Kindly send your reply to my alternate email:
**fmissstella@yahoo.com*<fmissstella@yahoo.com>

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