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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:
  • "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. )
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • mikekamara00@yahoo.co.nz (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mike kamara" <mikekamara02@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:32:58 +0000
Subject: URGENT MESSAGE


From:Mike Kamara
Accra Ghana.
Dear Sir,

I am Mike Kamara a and the only surviving child of late Elvis Gada Kamara
who traded in gold and diamond before his assassination during the Sierra
Leone civil war.My Father , mother, and two brothers were assassinated and
burnt beyond recognition by rebels after looting cash, diamonds and gold
from my family but somehow spared my life and that of my brother were
spared.

I am contacting you in respect of the sum of $10,500.000.00 deposited by my
late father in a security company before he died. This money is part of
money he realized from the sales of diamonds and gold by him. I got your
contact on a notepad details that a previous user forgot to delete on the
pc I am using on the internet this morning and having been convinced from
your profile that you are capable of handling a transaction of this
magnitude, I decided to entrust you with this great task.

My father told me and my elder brother JULIUS KAMARA (who died on the 17th
of December 2006 due to poor medical attention resulting from my inability
to buy prescribed drugs for him) about these deposits with this security
company in Ghana, and when we came to Ghana after his death we found the
security company and I confirmed that the three boxes containing $10.5M each
were still in their safe custody.

Due to our refugee status, we were not qualified to claim the deposits, in
July last year we contacted one MR. Richard Scott from London to help us in
claiming two of the boxes that contained $10,500.000.00 each so that he will
send us $10,000.00 to enable us secure traveling documents to join him in
London and my late brother issued him a power of attorney which qualify him
to claim the boxes, but when the first two boxes were handed over to him, he
disappeared and that is the last we heard of him. since we were now unable
to travel to London to claim the last box yet, the last box containing the
remaining $10,500.000.00 and as a result of that the box have remained under
the custody of the security company which has its Head office here in Ghana.
Note that my late father deposited the money with the security company as
family treasures for safe keeping so the security company is unaware that
the actual content is cash and that is the same story we gave the diplomat .

What I require of you to do for me now is your agreeing to this proposal and
I will contact our lawyer to issue you with a change of ownership to claim
the box from the diplomat there in London. (I beg for your utmost HONESTY
assuring me that you will not betray me when the box is handed over to you.)

I agree to give you 35% of the $10,500,000.00 and the balance 65% will be
mine and you will assist me to secure new documents that will enable me to
travel down to join you in your country.

Please in your reply include your;
A: FULL NAMES
B: ADDRESS

As these information will be required by the pastor that I am staying with
now who is also a lawyer to draft the new change of ownership which will be
submitted to the security company so that you will arrange with them to
deliver the cash to you .

Note that the box contain spendable cash.I have attached a copy of my
Identification, a copy of the deposit certificate for the box and a copy of
the WILL document that shows I inherited the box.

reply to my private email; mikekamara00@yahoo.co.nz

Best Regards,

Michael Kamara.

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