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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 have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • dvdnkm@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: davidz0111@yahoo.in
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:41:03 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Good Day


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: davidnkomo28@yahoo.in



- Tel,00233 24 691 69 58,Dear Sir/Ma, I am David S.Nkomo. It is my pleasure to contact you for assistant which i honestly needed from you.I am from Zimbabwe by nationality, but i transit here in Ghana for the sake of my inheritance which my late father ( Mr.Samuel Nkomo ) deposited in one of the security company here in Accra Ghana as family precious valuables items.Before the death of my father he review while on his sick bed about this consignment box in one of the security company in Accra Ghana that it content amount of US$20.5 Million. and he handed over to me the necessary documents of the deposit as his only child. Base on the conditions of the deposit after going through the documents i will need a foreign beneficiary of the fund because my late father never want the fund to be invested in Africa,he want the fund to be invested in overseas where i will continue my education and stay the rest of my live because it will be a risk for me going back to my country.I have decided to invest these money anywhere safe enough outside our Country for security and political reasons hence,i want you to help me by standing as my foreign beneficiary to the one consignment box with the security company here in Accra Ghana.If you can be of an assistance to me as to get claim and make transfer of the fund to you in your country, i will be pleased to offer to you 25% of the total fund for your assistance and you will also stand for me as my guardian to invest the fund .I will be delighted to hear from you with aim of agreeing to help me.Contact me for more information through any of this Email id: nkomod11@yahoo.in or dvdnkm@gmail.com, I wait for your positive respond. Yours faithfully,David Nkomo

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