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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "million us dollars" (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)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • oge.emmanuel@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "emmanuel onyia" <emmanuel_onyia@acasa.ro>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:12:19 +0300
Subject: DIVINE VICTORY HELP.


Emmanuel Onyia
Christian Pentecostal Mission Hqters,
Rue de Triechville,
Abidjan, Ivory coast .
West Africa .

Dear Sir/Madam

Permit us to inform you that after reading your address in the net. I
became interested in disclosing every thing about myself to you. I am
interested in a long term business relationship with you. We are Emmanuel
and Ogechukwu Onyia the children of first wife of late Mr PETER.N. ONYIA
Family, the former chief accountant to the Sierra-Leone gold cooperation in
kenama, who was assassinated by the RUF rebels during his visit to our
village on April 6 2006.

Unfortunately our mother Mrs CHARITY ONYIA died for hypertension one year
later in our country and before then our mother has already advised me and
my younger sister Ogechukwu to look for a foreign partner to transfer this
fund and invest it in abroad.

We inherited a total sum of $7.5 million us dollars, from my late beloved
father as the next of kin to my family. This money which is deposited with
a bank here in Cote D' Ivoire in west Africa under a special arrangements
as deposited on behalf of a foreign partner.

Now that we are in Cote D' Ivoire and verified the deposited bank, we need
your assistance to help us move this funds out for investment in your
country as we can not invest here due to its nearness to our country and
the war still going on there .we ask you to scout for a valuable and
lucrative business, so that we can invest wisely. We have in mind to give
you 20% of the total sum of US $7.5 million.

By this mail you are now requested to arrange on how we can move the fund
quick to your account in your country for investment. Thanks and God Bless
you and your Family in one accord. We are waiting for your urgent response.
Please respond on our private E-mail at oge.emmanuel@gmail.com

Best Regards
Emmanuel and Ogechukwu Onyia.
DIVINE VICTORY HELP.


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