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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: osas semson <osas_semson@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:24:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I am an orphan.(a cry for help).


Investment proposal
>From The Desk of Kelvin Momougo,
Contact: 00233-2439-32097.
Dear Friend,

First I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you
will be given genuine approval considering the facts
you and I just meet in the net. I wish to use this
opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am Kelvin
Momougo from Sierra-Leone.

I write you to know my desires to invest in your
country; I am the first son of Jonathan K.Momougo, who
was the former Minister of Mines and Industry. My
father had a bullet wounds by the rebels on his way
traveling to the Capital city Freetown along with my
sister. My sister died on the spot while U.N Peace
keeping force rescued my father, he later died after
eleven months.

Before his death he told to me about the box
containing $20.5 million U.S Dollars to look after my
self and my Mother and shouldn’t go to Sierra-Leone
for my safety. Why my father deposit the fund in the
security company in Ghana is for safety of the fund.

Presently, my mother and I are here in West Africa
Accra Ghana to notify the security company for the
claims for the FUND, and we are staying in the refugee
camp.

Therefore I want you to lecture me on how best we can
invest this money in your country and as I told you I
really wanted to buy a house when I come there. My
father told me it is dangerous to invest this money in
Africa to avoid suspicious, due to its bad economy and
political instability facing Africa countries that is
why I want to invest in abroad.

For your foreign assistance I and my mother have
agreed to offer 20% of the total amount of the money.
We have all the vital documents covering the deposit
fund and the ownership which I can send to you through
fax on request.

NOTE: I have never disclosed this to any person apart
from you, so you have to keep this matter very
confidential. Send me your Private phone and fax
numbers for more information.

Phone No: 00233-2439-32097.
Best Regards,
Kelvin Momougo.





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