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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic delivery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "diplomatic delivery" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +2213659801 (Senegal, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • kamaraeric@safe-mail.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Eric Kamara" <erichammer@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kamaraeric@safe-mail.net
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:53:40 +0000
Subject: ATTN!!!

Attn:Sir,
I am so sorry if I plied into your privacy, it was due to the confidentiality repose to this medium. My name is Mr.Eric Kamara,the Manager in charge of Consignment/Delivery Department of ROYAL EXCHANGE FINANCIAL & SECURITY TRUST here in Dakar Senegal.My company has been widely used for deposit/shipment of vital documents
and properties, mostly by prominent leaders in Africa,Europe and Asia.

I just discovered the true content of an unclaimed Consignment valued at $27.3M that was deposited in the year 1999 by our late customer from your country.For seven years now, I expected any of his relations to file in an application for the claim of the said Consignment inline with our professional working ethics/guidelines but it's so
very clear to me now that this deposit was made unknown to any of his relations. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to contact you to legally release and deliver this Consignment (Funds) to you as the original depositor for safety and
subsequent disbursement between us since nobody is coming for it.

The request for a foreign personality like you in this business is occasioned by the very fact that the customer was a foreigner. All I have to do is to process a deposit Bond issued to you as of the time you deposited the trunk with my company.The United Nation (UN) Office here will issue Anti-Terrorist Clearance Coverage and endorse the shipment in line with the UN embargo on shipment ethics 72 of the
delivery Act. I will work out all the shipment process and the special diplomatic delivery to your doorstep or to any of our clearing house closer to you where
you will be paid in cash.

All I want you to do is to apply to my company officially for the release of your consignment. Trusting to hear from you ASAP if you are willing to work with me.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Eric Kamara
ROYAL EXCHANGE FINANCIAL & SECURITY TRUST,
Plot 177, Suit 6, Farrar House,Dakar Senegal
Email:kamaraeric@safe-mail.net
Tel: +221-365-9801.

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