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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "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.
  • mr.georgebaahwiredu@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr . George Baah Wiredu" <mr.georgebaahwiredu@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:23:16 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PLEASE I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mr.georgebaahwiredu@yahoo.com



- How are you today and your family? I do believe that God is really in control. Please, I would like to introduce myself ,I am Mr. George Baah-Wiredu the first son of late Hon Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Finance and Economic Planning Minister of Ghana writing on behalf of my family. We recently lost our father Hon Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Finance and Economic Planning Minister on his trip to South Africa. May his soul rest in pace. This is the website you will get more information regards to the death of my father. http://www.ghanatoday.com/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=24573 Please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that you have not known me before and as top secret and confidential message. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days on internet. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. There is this US$ 8.5 Million and 250kg of dust Gold, my late father deposited with a!
security company here in Accra Ghana of which I am the next of kin as the first son. With my condition and because of my late father position in our country now I can not have access to the boxes because the money was packed and deposit in the security company. I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin so that he or she will apply to the security company and request for the release of the box and shipment of the boxes to his or her destination before I will come over to meet with you. This is on the condition that you will take 30% of the fund for yourself, 5% used for expenses, 65% for me and my family. If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names; home address and contact information like your direct telephone number so that I will submit your name to the security company as the beneficiary and also send the authorization that you are my appointed beneficiary. I will also give you a t!
ext of the application which you fill and contact the security company
on my behalf. I look forward to your response. Best regards, Mr . George Baah-Wiredu.

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