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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)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "kennetkamara" <kennethkamara23@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kenneth_kamara101@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:20:55 +0200
Subject:

DEAR FRIEND,
Please bear with me for sending this letter to you surprisingly. My name is Mr kenneth kamara a 23 years young man originally from Sierra Leone in west Africa.

My sole purpose of contacting you is for you to assist me to claim and invest my inheritance (EIGHT MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLAR 8.2million
u s dollars depsited in a security company by my late father in Dakar senegal in your country or elsewhere. I and my mother have proposed 20% percent of the total som and 2% percent for any expenses incured during the transfer for you.
I am presently living in refuge camp Dakar Senagel with my age mother we are the only sovival of my family during the war in my country Sierra Leonia, I and my mother run into Dakar senegal where my late Father Usuman kamara deposited the fund as a family treasure in a metteric silver coded box.
Please we are seeking for you assistance to help us claim the money and shift it to your country for investment.As soon as i hear from you i will fax to you all the deposit document of the money with the contact of the holding Company for you to instruct them to shift the money to you in your country.

Wish to hear from you soon.
Bye and God bless.

YOURS TRULY
KENNETH KAMARA

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