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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • thomposadjei@katamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: adjeithom@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:15:57 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Please=20read=20carefully=20and=20reply?=

Dear friend,

My name is Mr. Thompson Adjei, I work in a managerial
position in a well respected security company, with a
head office in Accra Ghana

I am contacting you because of an urgent business
transaction that I want to do with a trusted foreigner,
I got your email information from one of my good friends
who works with Ghana's Chamber of Commerce and industry
on foreign business relations here in Accra-Ghana though
I did not disclose the deal to him. When he gave me your
email address, I did not ask him his source because I
trust his judgment, having known him for a very long time.

On the 25th of November 2003, the sum of $41,500.000 was
deposited with my company, disguised as a family heirloom
in a trunk box, this is not the only time that corrupt
government officials uses the services of my company to
ship their ill gotten wealth abroad or secure it for future
use. I took exceptional note of this deposit because it was
large and as the man at the helm of affairs then, I got to
know the man behind the deposit, Late President Gnassingbe
Eyadema who died on February 2005.

The reason for my contacting you is that I checked and found
out that the deposit is still intact and nobody has asked for
it, and I know that nobody will ever ask for it, I am the
only living soul who knows the true identity of the depositor,
no other person can retrieve the deposit except the person can produce the
codes combination which was given to the depositor,
the way we operate is that if the depositor wants to retrieve
his deposit, he will instruct the company in writing and give
his codes and if the manager confirms the code, the deposit
will be released at once to the person, no name or
identification is needed.

If you accept to work with me, I will give you the instruction
letter to send to my company and also when the company asks for
the codes, I will give them to you

Please if you are not interested in this business let me know
so that I can contact someone else.Please send your response
through my alternative email addresses below for security
measures (thomposadjei@katamail.com)

My best regards.
Mr. Thompson Adjei

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