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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "the diplomat " ("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 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.
  • tachimuje02@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Nana Tachimuje" <tachimuje07@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tachimuje02@excite.com
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:59:19 +0000
Subject: Let me if you can do it.

High & Mighty Chambers
Ghana West Africa
9 Spintex road
E-mail: Tachimuje02@excite.com
Tel:+233 28 7086101.
Name: Mr Nana Tachimuje.

Greetings

It is my pleasure to contact you for a help, I would like you to be my
partner in business, my client have cash amounting to twenty million united
states dollars to invest in your Country, I also want to use this
opportunity to inform you that this fund is not a stolen fund, it belong to
my client Mrs. Margaret Nkrumah from Ghana, she inherited the funds from her
Late Father.
I will disclose every detail concerning this funds and her to you as soon as
I hear from you. I am a Lawyer also from Ghana in West Africa. As at this
moment I write, this fund is in your Country with Diplomat who is to deliver
the consignment to my client foreign partner in your Country, but
surprisingly I heard that the partner has died so the boxes is intact with
the Diplomat who now in Country with the consignment but the Diplomat did
not know the contents of the 2 Boxes that contain the amount.
A soon as you respond indicating an interest, I will proceed to get the
necessary papers for the clearance of the Consignment and after that I will
link you up with the Diplomatic Office in your Country . I just want you to
claim this fund hence it is there in your Country, and then I will come over
with my client for the sharing of the money.
I have decided to offer twenty percent to you as a reward to your
anticipated cooperation. Bear in mind that the Diplomatic Office in your
Country did not know the contents of the 2 boxes, we told him it contain
Company Documents, I will take care of all the cost of Necessary Documents
regards the claim of the consignment and you will take care of all the cost
for the claiming of the consignment in your Country.
These funds will be invested in your Company as soon as you clear it in your
Country, and also forward your contact information to me as soon as you
receive this mail.
I await your detailed response.

Thanks you.
Mr Nana Tachimuje.

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