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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • maofori1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mary ofori" <maryofori11111@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:17:07 +0100
Subject: From Mary


From; Madam Mary Ofori
Tel: +233 217 86 418.

Please do reply me with this private mail:
maofori1@yahoo.com<http://us.f631.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=maofori1@yahoo.com&YY=31473&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>.


My Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my
Son George intends to establish in your country. Though I have not met
With you before but I believe one has to risk confiding to succeed
Sometimes in life,

I believe I can confide in you for the brighter future of my children
Since you are a human being like me, there is this huge amount of
Seventeen Million United States dollars, ($17.000.000.00) which my late
Husband kept for us with a Security Company here in Accra Ghana before
his untimely death, Now I and my son George decided to invest these money
in your country or anywhere safe enough for security and political
Reasons,

We want you to help us claim and retrieve this fund from the Security
Company and transfer it into your personal account in your country for
Investment in the area of your expertise,

If you can be of assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you
15% of the total fund, you can call my son George for more explanation
On this number: +233 217 86 418

I await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,

Madam Mary Ofori.

maofori1@yahoo.com<http://us.f631.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=maofori1@yahoo.com&YY=31473&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>
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