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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:

• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2289437368 (Togo, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: pastorpaul christopher <pastorpaulchris2@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:11:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: God Bless You For Your Gospel Work With Enrichment


ASSEMBLED OF GOD CHRISTAIN CHURCH
25 SHATTO B.P 41 AVENUE CRESENT
LOME TOGO.

Dear My Bloved brethern in christ,

Calvary greetings and God enrich you for your Gospel work.

Am Pastor Paul Christopher.

Someone i prayed made a WILL of his wealth on your name as he new beneficiary the sum
of $2.5millon.usd,so i could have mail you since but cos i was sick and am well now.

So if you receive this mail, kindly reply me back
so that i can tell you the name of the man,anyway the man died on car accident last month,one Mr James Brown
according to the man said that through you he received salvation.

He has no family and decided to WILL some of his wealth to YOU, your Family, and Your Minisry for God's work.the deposit of the money is in the security company here in lome,Republic Of TOGO.

I asked him why he choosed to keepth the fund in the security company rather than bank,and he then told me that he keepth it there because he withdrawed it from his bank for urgent business because the bank might delayed him .

I then asked him wouldn't the security company carry the box of the fund as you keepth it and vanish,he then answered and told me that he registered the box of the money m2.5usd as some family treasures, that soon he will collect it back,thats the secret,then brother James Brown passed to me to inform you that only you I and Him knowns the secret inside the box,that when you contact the security company just tell them to release the box of family treasures and forward it to you in your country or release it to me so that i can forward it to you.

Dearest,do not let the security company know that the registered box contains money just tell them that Brother James Brown told you that i was some family treasures inside the box deposited in their firm.

He told me to contacts you soonest before he dead but i was not well,am sorry pls for the delayed

How is your religion?

Bye and remain bless in Jesus name amen

Yours Faithfully

Pastor Paul Christopher.Here my number +228 943 73 68.



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