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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "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.
  • johnmozemi@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: johnmozemi@live.com
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:22:12 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Yours truly, John


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

Yours truly, John Mozemi

- Dear, Friend How are you doing? May you receive this email and reply me according to what I asked you. I am John Mozemi 25 year’s old, son of the late Dr. Johnson Salifu Mozemi. My father was former minister of Agriculture and also Business man of his own. My parents are from East Africa CONGO DR. Honestly I need your reliability to be my trustee in other to help me and my mother to retrieve my late father’s consignment box from Accra Ghana. I am making this contact to you in respect of 3.500.00$ US THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS with 25KG of Gold dust, which I inherited from my late father. This fund was raise from the sales of diamonds through my father late brother Dr. Richard Mozemi who was in charge of Diamond Company in CONGO DR before he died. For your information I wish to tell you that this funds where parked in 1 metal trunk BOX as treasure of the family with the Gold dust and Diamond stones attached in the same trunk Box. My Father was poisoned by His business partner, and MY MOTHER TOO HAS BEEN BATTLING WITH BOTH CANCER AND FIBROID PROBLEMS SINCE THE DEATH OF MY FATHER. It is exactly 6th months now I fly my mother from my Country to a Hospital in UK LONDON, to treat her disease. I must tell you that my mother’s present condition now is okay she is no more filling pains again like before. I was called by my late father before his death, to be informed about the funds he lodged with GHANA PROTECT HOUSE & CO in West Africa (Ghana) and other documentations were also revealed to me by him, he advised me to look for a reliable business partner in abroad, who will assist me in investing the funds in a lucrative business. As I am presently in UK LONDON my arrangement is to move the funds out of SECURITY HOUSE in Ghana, and brings it here in LONDON or any other Europe country /Asia or America for investment as my late father told me.It is the main reason why I contacted you to seek your assistance for us to move these funds to any country of your choice for investment purposes. I will like you to be the person taking delivery, so that the Consignment BOX can be moved in your name to your country or any country of your choice where it will be claimed and invested. Hence my late father has informed the GHANA PROTECT HOUSE & CO personnel that the owner of the Consignment BOX is his foreign business partner whose particulars will be forwarded to the COMPANY when due. It is indicate in the certificate of deposit which the Security house gave to my late father that the Consignment BOX is for his foreign business partner.Based on this instance I and my family have unanimously decided to give you 20% percent of the total funds, and the balance of 80% percent is what you will invest and manage for my family. I hereby guarantee you that this is not government funds, it is not drug funds and it is not funds from arms deal and it has no terrorist origin. I will give you all proof of deposit and existence of the funds once fully satisfied with your capability and honesty. I hope this will be the beginning of a prosperous relationship between my family and yours. I will like you to send to me your personal telephone and fax for easy communication. As soon as the Consignment BOX reaches you, I will then leave LONDON with my mother and come over to meet you in person, so that we can discuss physically on Investment details.I am waiting to hear your response urgently, please try to keep this talk secret because the wall has ear. And for any further information you may need to no please email me back so that I will give you the info.Yours truly, John Mozemi

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