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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 us 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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • darko35a@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Anthony Darko." <darko34a@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: darko35a@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:20:35 +0400
Subject: Needed Your Assistance and Advise.

Sir,

I will introduce my family to you before my explanation follows. We are family of Dr. Kwabena Darko, the founder and chairman of Darko Farms & Company Ltd. Darko Farms, located in Kumasi, Ghana, is an agro-industrial complex with a highly integrated network of production units. Darko Farms was created in 1967 and is the largest poultry farm in Ghana. With an annual production of over 5 million day-old-chicks, 30 million table eggs, 780,000 units of chicken, and 30,000 tons of animal feed, Darko Farms has set the standard in agricultural development on the African Continent. We are proud to be in partnership with Tyson Foods/USA to supply poultry orders to the surrounding region.

Meanwhile, my father is now late I have only my survive mother with one sister. The reason I Anthony Darko contacted you is that my mother instructed me to look for outside investment which we can be able to invest some money our late father leave for us worthy $6.5million US dollars my late father deposited with Berkeley Safe Deposit, Ghana.

Therefore, we needed your full assistance to enable us make fund creditable to you, if you are willing to handle these funds into your company then feel free to contact me back immediately for more details on how these funds will reach you. We may need your passport copy or driving license.

I am in Dubai, UAE for my business trip now, so you may contact me direct with this mobile number here +971 50 8808640 for more details. Here is my personal email address you can reach me (darko35a@yahoo.com)

Your urgent reply is highly needed by me.
Best regards,
Anthony Darko
For the family.

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