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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "any lucrative business in your country" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: ogechi maranatah <ogechi_maranatah5b@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:00:21 +0100 (CET)
Subject: ORPHANAGE


Dear sir,

It is my pleasure to write you after much
consideration since I can not be able to see you face
to face at first . Being , the only DAUGHTER of my
father , late MR MARANATAH FROM ZULU IN REPUBLIC OF
SOUTH AFRICA ( SA) I AM 22 YEARS OF AGE. My father
was a limited liability cocoa and gold merchant in
south africa before his untimely death . after his
business trip to SAUDI ARABIA , he was
assassinated with my mother by unknown assassins
which my mother died instantly but my father died
after five days in hospital ,on that faithful
afternoon .I didn't know that my father was going to
leave me afther I had lost my mother .but before he
gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going
to die. he my father,
(MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE)
The sum of $25.5 000,00 USDollars (TWENTY FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSANDDOLLARS) in a security company in EUROPE. That the money was meant for his cocoa business he wanted to invest in EUROPE.
throughLY, according to my father he desposited the
money in a trunk box , but declared it as a family valuable and he simply handed me the key of the
box and all the certificates of the box , and instructed me to seek for a life time investment in your country to invest this money into it. Now I have succeeded in locating the security company There in
EUROPE and also confirmed the item
with most honest and confidential. Now I am soliciting
for your assistance to help me to invest this money in your country after we received it out from the security company in EUROPE ,hoping to hear from you so that we should discussed on how to invest this money
in any lucrative business in your country through your directives.
Because this is my only hope in life and I will never
be greedy in negociating percentage with you I,m waiting anxiously to hear from you
BEST REGARDS ,
OGECHI MARANATAH.







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