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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:
  • "huge sum 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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "MR PHILLIP BWADI" <mr_phil64@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:04:34 -0800
Subject: FROM MR PHILLIP BWADI

ATTENTION SIR/ MADAM, I AM A WELL ESTABLISHED CONSULTANT IN THE SUB-REGION, WEST AFRICA HANDLING A WIDE RANGE OF TRADE AND INVESTMENT MATTERS. JUST RECENTLY, I WAS CONSULTED AND MANDATED BY A FAMILY TO SOURCE FOR HER A RELIABLE FOREIGN PARTNER. I HAD A CONTRACT AND THAT'S TO SUPPLY FOOD TO SOME OF THE IMMIGRANTS LIVING IN ACRAPOLIS HOSTEL HERE IN GHANA.WELL ALONG THE LINE I MET A WOMAN CALLED MRS KAIYAMBA AND HER SON CALLED MAMBOLO KAIYAMBA AND A DAUGTHER WHO HAD BEEN SEEING ME WITH A WHITE MAN, WHO HAPPENS TO BE THEIR DOCTOR, WHO HAVE BEEN TREATING THE IMMIRANTS AT ACRAPOLIS HOSTEL. SO THEY LATER ON TOLD ME THAT THEY HAD THIS HUGE SUM OF MONEY AND THAT IF I CAN FIND THEM A WELL TRUSTED AND RELIABLE PERSON WHO CAN HELP THEM INVEST THE MONEY IN A COUNTRY THAT IS POLITICALLY STABLE THAT HAS AN EXCELLENT CLIMATE AND ALSO A TOP PERSONALITY BY WHO INVESTMENT ON A LARGE SCALE COULD BE HANDLED, BECAUSE THAT PLACE IS MORE SAFE TO LIVE. I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF YOU ARE CAPABLE TO ASSIST THEM TO INVEST THIS MONEY OR FIND A RELIABLE AND A TRUST WORTHY PERSON WHOM YOU THINK OF, THEN WRITE ME SO THAT I CAN GET BACK TO THEM.AM WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON. YOURS SINCERELY, MR PHILLIP BWADI.

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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam