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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• 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.
  • katk055@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: kate kovo <katk006@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: katk055@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:50:29 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Kate.


My Dear One, PLEASE REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR SECURITY
AND CONFIDENTIAL REASONS:

Email: katk055@yahoo.com

I am Miss kate Kovo,the daughter of late Mr.Konan Kovo ( May his gentle soul rest in peace) who was a special adviser to the late president Robert Guei. There is an information I would like you to keep very confidential. There is some amount of money my father Late Mr.Konan Kovo deposited in a security company labeled family valuables for safe keeping before his death.

This money in question is $6.5M (Six million five hundred thousand US dollars) and has been secretly deposited into a reputable security company, where it can easily be withdrawn or paid to a recommended beneficiary.The fund will be released to you by the security company based on my recommendations. I want you to assist me to get the consignment withdrawn from the security company as my father's Foriegn business partner,on this note, you will be presented as my family business partner who will be fronting for me and my younger brother Collins in the areas of business you deem profitable to invest in.

To show my preparedness and appreciation to conduct this business with you, I shall give you 20% of the total fund and 15% commission on all proceeds realize from the investment of this fund.Please, I need your full support and co-operation for the success of this venture. I plead with you to treat as urgent and confidential. This is a delicate issue, which demands a great degree of secrecy.
Thank you.

Kate Kovo.





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