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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.
• 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.
  • jessicaattipoe_ja@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Jessica Attipoe <jessicaattipoe_ja@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:15:31 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: ATTN:Micheal Gallatin, From:Miss. Jessica Aneh Attipoe.Looking forward to your urgent reply please


Dear Micheal Gallatin ,
 
 
My name is Miss. Jessica Aneh Attipoe. I am 22 years and a citizen of Republic of Togo. I am the only daughter of my late parents, MR. RICHARD ATTIPOE (Former Minister of Sports in Togo) who died after helicopter crash at Freetown
International airport on June 3rd, 2007. This website below carried the news about my father's death. http://www.republicoftogo.com/central.php?o=5&s=51&d=3&i=685 . My mother died two years ago before my father died on June 3rd, 2007.
 
 
My father's brothers have stopped my school this year just because I am a woman. My father's family has seized all my father's assets just because he has no son. Here if a man dies without a son, it doesn't matter
how many daughters he has, my fathers family members are always in trouble even now that his wife is alive. I ran to the Northern part of the country when I sensed that they have known that I have the deposition receipt of $12, 500,000
US dollars belonging to my late father which he deposited in a bank in Ghana. In the deposit certificate, my name appeared as the next of kin. Their pressure was too much for me to bear and if I do not ran away from them; they will kill
me and take away the certificate.
 

Based on my father's advice, when he was alive concerning his brothers, I am afraid of everyone here including all our family people. To them, I have no right even to know what is going on in my father's house. It is a painful situation for me. I need your help to transfer this money to your account and get out of here as quickly as possible, through the coordination of my late father's personal attorney who is in position of the certificate of the deposit now.

 
May God bless you as you help an orphan child like me.
 
Yours sincerely,
Miss. Jessica Aneh Attipoe.
Please send your reply to this E-mail only : jessicaattipoe_ja@yahoo.co.uk

 

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