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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge amount of money" (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 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)
  • ",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)
  • "can i completely trust you?" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • kojo8651@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: k8651@sify.com
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:12:27 +0000
Subject: Investment Proposal

From: Kojo Annan
Tel: +233249963041

Dear Sir,

I hope all is well over there in your country. My father was a highly reputable business man (a cocoa merchant and supplier of agro-allied materials) who operated in the capital city of Ghana during his days. It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad in February last year; though we suspect my uncle who traveled with him to France for his sudden death.

My mother died when I was 4 years old and since then my father took me so special and before he died, he told me about a box he concealed the sum of USD5,500,000:00 deposited in one of the security company herein Ghana, West Africa, which he disguised and declared the box to contain family valuables instead of money, by this way the company does not know the true content of the box. He registered the consignment using the name of beneficiary or next of kin to be his business foreign partner living overseas. I have in my possession the deposit documents which the company gave to my late father when he deposited the box with the security company. I really don't know what to do. The death of my father really brought sorrow to my life. I am in a sincere desire of your assistance in this regards.

I will like you to help me and contact the security company as the beneficiary for the claim of the box so that I can come over to your country and continue my education there, while you look for a good business you can invest since I am still too young to handle a business of such huge amount of money. Since the death of my father, things has not been easy for me due to my uncle who killed my father also wants to eliminate me because of my fathers landed properties in order to claim them, I managed to escape from my fathers house to a nearby town where I was hiding then, in one of my old school friends house but presently, I am now in a refugee camp because he is still seriously in search of me.

As soon as I receive your reply by fax or email, I will send you the contact details of the security company and the deposited documents. Now permit me to ask you these few questions;

1. Can you honestly and willingly help me as your brother/son?

2. Can I completely trust you?

3. What percentage of the money will be good for you after the money is in your country?

Kindly consider this proposal and get back to me as soon as possible to email; kojo8651@gmail.com Thank you!


Yours respectfully,
Kojo Annan

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