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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
• 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.
  • ddmorgand@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DAVID MORGAN" <mmdavid2005@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ddmorgand@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:56:33 +0000
Subject: PLEASE REPLY NOW

FROM: LITTLE DAVID MORGAN
KUMASI GHANA,In West Africa.
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business
relationship with you. We got your contact from a computerize data following my
effort searching for a trustworthy person to assist us.
I am DAVID MORGAN the only SON of late CHIFE and Mrs Alfred.G.MORGAN
,My father was a very wealthy gold / cocoa merchant in Kumasi, the
economic region of Ghana before he was poisoned to death by his business
associates on one of their outing to discuss on a business deal.

When before our Father died,My father took me to his private Attonery
special because lam motherless.Before the death of my father in a
private hospital here in Kumasi,He secretly called me on his bedside and told
me that he has a sum of Eleveen Million United States Dollars
(USD$11M)Only deposited in a secuirty company here on his name.

He also explained to us that it was because of this wealth and some
huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from
the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that
we should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of our
choice who can assist me in claiming this fund from the secuirty company
for me for investment purposes and use it for investment purpose, (such
as real estate management).

But because of my present situation in my country i want to transfer
the money out of the country as we don't know what might happen next.

I honourably seeking your assistance in the following way.

( 1) To act as the foreign partner of our late father by claiming this
fund from the secuirty company were my father deposited it .

Moreover , we are willing to offer you 15% of the sum as compensation
for effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your your
country overseas.Anticipating to hear from you soon. reply me through
my private email ddmorgand@yahoo.com
Thanks and God Bless.

DAVID MORGAN

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